Stephen Fry quote: "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."

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
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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 were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
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Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...
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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the m...
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We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I...
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You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the sa...
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Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty pur...
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There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will l...
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I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren'...
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and ...
STEPHEN FRY

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that ...
STEPHEN FRY

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and t...
STEPHEN FRY

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...
STEPHEN FRY

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
STEPHEN FRY

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRY

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting...
STEPHEN FRY

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an e...
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Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in com...
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down ...
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go ...
STEPHEN FRY

Mental health is one of the last great taboos.
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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all ...
STEPHEN FRY

My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRY

You are who you are when nobody's watching.
STEPHEN FRY

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a st...
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I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary...
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I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it w...
STEPHEN FRY

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRY

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound...
STEPHEN FRY

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we...
STEPHEN FRY

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symp...
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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be o...
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll ...
STEPHEN FRY

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing r...
STEPHEN FRY

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue
STEPHEN FRY

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jon...
STEPHEN FRY

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRY

Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appe...
STEPHEN FRY

I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences...
STEPHEN FRY

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to expe...
STEPHEN FRY

I could rent a room, paint it black, bolt on a few chains and call it my punishment room, Then have ...
STEPHEN FRY

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowe...
STEPHEN FRY

I don't think the bitterest enemy of the Perrier Award could deny that it has spotted some real tale...
STEPHEN FRY

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

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least doe...
STEPHEN FRY

If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so...
STEPHEN FRY

I think animal testing is cruel. They get nervous and get all the answers wrong.
STEPHEN FRY

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

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. I...
STEPHEN FRY

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are...
STEPHEN FRY

He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...
STEPHEN FRY

He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble...
STEPHEN FRY

He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He m...
STEPHEN FRY

I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a pa...
STEPHEN FRY

He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...
STEPHEN FRY

The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insul...
STEPHEN FRY

Other people's tears were more than Adrian could cope with. Did you put an arm round them? Did you p...
STEPHEN FRY

The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to...
STEPHEN FRY

As Adrian hurried past the Senate House he noticed two old men standing outside Bowes and Bowes. He ...
STEPHEN FRY

We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am ...
STEPHEN FRY

It is perfectly possible to live a life from cradle to grave that is entirely dishonest.One might ne...
STEPHEN FRY

I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, "In this life one should try everything once except inces...
STEPHEN FRY

Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercise...
STEPHEN FRY

Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, ho...
STEPHEN FRY

All gone. All anger quelled, all desire drained, all thirst slaked, all madness past.
STEPHEN FRY

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

He was always doing that these days. Everything he saw became a symbol of his own existence, from a ...
STEPHEN FRY

He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the tr...
STEPHEN FRY

That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine"

Which was about all he seemed to have. H...
STEPHEN FRY

Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, lang...
STEPHEN FRY

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as t...
STEPHEN FRY

Little girls grow up to be women, little boys grow up to be little boys.
STEPHEN FRY

Books are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religion, but when it comes to worsh...
STEPHEN FRY

I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look f...
STEPHEN FRY

Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishma...
STEPHEN FRY

Not one word of the following is true
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It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked b...
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My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a ...
STEPHEN FRY

Better sexy and racy
Than sexist and racist
STEPHEN FRY

Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befri...
STEPHEN FRY

I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily ba...
STEPHEN FRY

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
STEPHEN FRY

There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphr...
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I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that ...
STEPHEN FRY

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, v...
STEPHEN FRY

It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of t...
STEPHEN FRY

I’m not even tone deaf, that’s the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing....
STEPHEN FRY

Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY

We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
STEPHEN FRY

Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, t...
STEPHEN FRY

The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic resul...
STEPHEN FRY

Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has ...
STEPHEN FRY

I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as...
STEPHEN FRY

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into wh...
STEPHEN FRY

Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to...
STEPHEN FRY

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their...
STEPHEN FRY

I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.
STEPHEN FRY

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually ...
STEPHEN FRY

Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of tooth...
STEPHEN FRY

None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have al...
STEPHEN FRY

As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement an...
STEPHEN FRY

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that ...
STEPHEN FRY

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.
STEPHEN FRY

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less ...
STEPHEN FRY

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
STEPHEN FRY

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the hear...
STEPHEN FRY

And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again.

The sky was never the same colou...
STEPHEN FRY

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

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...
STEPHEN FRY

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the wor...
STEPHEN FRY

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He i...
STEPHEN FRY

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily t...
STEPHEN FRY

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

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which...
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I played in the chapel on Sundays, then moved on to polishing corridors.
STEPHEN FRY

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guar...
STEPHEN FRY

The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that...
STEPHEN FRY

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

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I...
STEPHEN FRY

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Inc...
STEPHEN FRY

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

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

Stephen Fry on being gay: "My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said,...
STEPHEN FRY

Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the s...
STEPHEN FRY

It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, th...
STEPHEN FRY

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Phil...
STEPHEN FRY

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does thing...
STEPHEN FRY

If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the w...
STEPHEN FRY

The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.
STEPHEN FRY

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
STEPHEN FRY

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRY

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it...
STEPHEN FRY

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you w...
STEPHEN FRY

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in lov...
STEPHEN FRY

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
STEPHEN FRY

For some reason the word “chronic” often has to be explained. It does not mean severe, though ma...
STEPHEN FRY

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

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not...
STEPHEN FRY

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a priv...
STEPHEN FRY

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

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

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRY

But happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRY

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

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRY

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

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.

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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.

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