613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

I certainly don’t want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.

He had just reached the pavement and gave now the smallest, quickest of glances back up the hill, in our direction. Our eyes didn’t meet, but I saw that he was even more beautiful than I had supposed. Even more beautiful than I had ever imagined it was possible to imagine imagining beauty. Beautiful in a way that made me realise that I had never even known before what beautiful really meant: not in people, nature, taste or sound.

Don’t go looking for something psychological that isn’t there. I have a bath after any kind of strenuous exercise. It doesn’t mean I feel dirty,” though he did, “it doesn’t mean I’m trying to wash you out of my life,” though he was, “it doesn’t mean guilt, shame, repentance or anything like that,” though it did. “It just means I want a bath.

I have Van Gogh’s ear for music.

Alternative medicine people call themselves “holistic” and say it’s the “whole” approach. Well, if it’s the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.

I knew I couldn’t believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

Unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don’t really mind.

Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and – as we all do, whether mortal or immortal – ignored it.