613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

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.

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.

It is their refusal to see any divine beings as perfect, whole and complete of themselves, whether Zeus, Moros or Prometheus, that makes the Greeks so satisfying.

Between funny and witty Falls the shadow.

I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

You’ve just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

Painters, poets and philosophers have seen many things in the myth of Sisyphus. They have seen an image of the absurdity of human life, the futility of effort, the remorseless cruelty of fate, the unconquerable power of gravity. But they have seen too something of mankind’s courage, resilience, fortitude, endurance and self-belief. They see something heroic in our refusal to submit.

I think I’m most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I’m a jelly...

I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense.