Books are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religion, but when it comes to worship, I am very low church. The temples and the graven images are of no interest to me. The superstitious mammetry of a bourgeois obsession for books is severely annoying. Think how many children are put off reading by prissy little people ticking them off whenever they turn a page carelessly. The world is so fond of saying that book s should be "treated with respect". But when are we told that _words_ should be treated with respect? From our earliest years we are taught to revere only the outward and visible. Ghastly literary types maundering on about books as "objects"...


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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRY
Between funny and witty
Falls the shadow
STEPHEN FRY
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact. The device has similarities to the device th...
ALAN FRY
This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact, ... The device has similarities to the devic...
ALAN FRY
This is a completely reckless terrorist attack,
ALAN FRY
clearly the sort of weapon we believe was used in this attack is known to be in the hands of certain...
ALAN FRY
An examination of the exterior of the building would show some form of small missile hit the buildin...
ALAN FRY
The task of police was made much more difficult if not impossible by the failure to give a precise l...
ALAN FRY
This was a calculated, evil act by people who were seeking to maim and kill. We are extremely fortun...
ALAN FRY
I am afraid there are two dead.
ALAN FRY
I am linking the crimes. We are treating this as a racist offense.
ALAN FRY
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY
Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY
If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY
I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word....
CHRISTOPHER FRY
The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; th...
ELIZABETH FRY
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled tog...
HAYDEN FRY
Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY
Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he cover...
MARTIN FRY
One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
JEFFREY FRY
Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY
Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
JEFFREY FRY
Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
JEFFREY FRY
Art is significant deformity.
ROGER FRY
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
MARTIN FRY
The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.
JEFFREY FRY
Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But tr...
JEFFREY FRY
Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its win...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian
ROGER FRY
I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Aust...
LUCY FRY
I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m...
HAYDEN FRY
When it's football season, I'm all football.
HAYDEN FRY
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone
ELIZABETH FRY
I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been de...
ELIZABETH FRY
It's all to make people aware of violence and safety in the evenings, and the different things that ...
ELIZABETH FRY
When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off.
JEFFREY FRY
He looked like a midget standing next to it.
KEVIN FRY
Eight of the teams believe one interpretation and Ferrari have a slightly different interpretation.
NICK FRY
'Take Back the Night' isn't just about domestic violence, 'Take Back the Night' is also about being ...
ELIZABETH FRY