Stephen Fry Short Quotes

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Old professors never die, they merely lose their faculties.

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

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Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.

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We are more afraid of being pretentious than of being dishonest.

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Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

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How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

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How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

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There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

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

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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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There is nothing so self-righteous nor so right as an adolescent imagination.

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The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

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

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You know what they say, if at first you don't succeed, you're not the eldest son.

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A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

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The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

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I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

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Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

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She has a very intense poetic mind. That's what makes it — that voice that comes in.

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He takes coke and has slept with a prostitute - but he's a TV presenter for God's sake!

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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

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Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

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

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There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

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My vocal cords are made of tweed. I give off an air of Oxford donnishness and old BBC wirelesses.

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My body, on the move, resembles in sight and sound nothing so much as a bin-liner full of yoghurt.

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It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then, like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.

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

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