Stephen Fry Quotes

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Stephen Fry

Funny, Age, Remind

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Stephen Fry

Experience, Insult, Once

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.
Stephen Fry

Depression, Word, Point

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry

Truth, Freedom, Tolerance

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry

Future, Impossible, Place

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
Stephen Fry

Takes, Common, English

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Stephen Fry

Daily, Human, Means

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Stephen Fry

Saying, May, Sometimes

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry

Women, Great, Men

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Stephen Fry

Passion, Sense, Reasonable

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry

Book, Give, Away

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry

Yourself, Reason, Six

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
Stephen Fry

Trying, Again, Far

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
Stephen Fry

Admire, Generally

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Stephen Fry

True, Cliche, Cliches

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry

Hard, Idea, Library

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
Stephen Fry

Government, Someone, Hard

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry

Christmas, Travel, Child

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry

Art, Talking, Television

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.
Stephen Fry

Time, Someone, Knowing

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
Stephen Fry

Love, Moving, Enjoy

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry

Why, Seen, Exists

But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Stephen Fry

Happiness, Persons

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
Stephen Fry

Long, Writing, Happen

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Nationality: British

Born: August 24, 1957

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