Stephen Fry Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“Happiness is no respecter of persons.”

“I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.”

“You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.”

“I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.”

“My parents were marvelously educated people.”

“I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.”

“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.”

“They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.”

“I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.”