613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

Civilisation, after all, is not an attitude of mind, it is an attribute of wealth.

There are people like me who just seem to be made of tweed.

If that kind of poetry doesn’t make your bosom heave then I fear we shall never be friends.

The Listener’s editor when I first joined was Russell Twisk, a surname of such surpassing beauty that I would have written pieces for him if he had been at the helm of Satanic Child-Slaughter Monthly.

You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it’s an endless stalemate.

My mother has an absolute passion for sour fruit and can strip a gooseberry bush quicker than a priest can strip a choirboy.

If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There’s none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved.

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.