613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s your explanation…there!” I stabbed a finger dramatically towards the far corner of the room. Pathetic, really. I mean, talk about the oldest trick in the book. But it’s a good book, and the trick would have been cut from subsequent editions if it didn’t sometimes work.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws...

The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.

My father was all brain and little heart.

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.