Stephen Fry Quotes

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• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sympathy

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• All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

  Stephen Fry

  Kindness, Greatness, Justice

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  You are who you are when nobody's watching.

  Stephen Fry

  Self, People, Who You Are

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• How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Stupid, Mean

  YouTube Chanel "Secular Talk"/ "Stephen Fry Annihilates God", www.youtube.com. January 31, 2015.

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• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

  Stephen Fry

  Happiness, Success, Ignorance

  "QI: Albania". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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  People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

  Stephen Fry

  People

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.284, Soho Press

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• The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Care, Failing

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press

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• Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

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  Fun, World, Porridge

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2014

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• It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Useless Things

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.298, Soho Press

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• We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

  Stephen Fry

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  "Stephen Fry reveals new BBC TV series" by Tim Lusher, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.

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• I have Van Gogh's ear for music

  Stephen Fry

  Ears, Vans

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

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  Funny, Witty, I Don't Need You

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• You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

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  Beautiful, Children, Nice

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• I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.

  Stephen Fry

  Cousin, Want, Knows

  "From Nicole Scherzinger beating bulimia to David Beckham's OCD - stars and mental health struggles" by Francesca Cookney, www.mirror.co.uk. July 2, 2014.

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• The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.

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  Email, Mail, Species

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• Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.

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  Struggle, Interesting, Input

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• Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Names, Intellectual

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• Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

  Stephen Fry

  Failing, Foolish

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press

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• Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2009

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• Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

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  Happiness, Sorry, Cheer Up

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• What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

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  Tree, Trying, Frogs

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.

  Stephen Fry

  Hurt, Broken, Stronger

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.101, Soho Press

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• Better sexy and racy Than sexist and racist

  Stephen Fry

  Sexy, Racist, Sexist

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• In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

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  Sapphires, Gleam, Plastic

  Stephen Fry (2014). “The Hippopotamus”, p.13, Soho Press

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• Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Homophobes, Homosexual

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