613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

Pomposity and indignation grow in old age, like nostril hairs and earlobes.

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. ‘Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you’ was, to me, hardly different from suggesting ’because you are gay, I dislike you.

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband’s name, so now I’m Neil Patterson.

Money and fame are trashy and don’t guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

The seeding of Gaia gave us meaning, a germination of thought into shape. Seminal semantic semiology from the semen of the sky.

A Hungarian Jew, as he looked to observe, is the only man who can follow you into a revolving door and come out first.

We recognize that if we had ever encountered the real demon demigod Achilles, we woul have feared and dreaded him, hated his temper, despised his pride and been repelled by his savagery. But we know too that we could not have helped loving him.

How can I tell you what I think until I’ve heard what I’m going to say?

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.