613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.

The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.