613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

A month’s salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

She loved him, in fact; his violence and strength appealed to some deep part of her. He in turn grew to love her, so far as such a violent brute was capable of the emotion. Love and war, Venus and Mars, have always had a strong affinity. No one quite knows why, but plenty of money has been made trying to find an answer.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn’t there.

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate.

I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.

I have always wanted to be able to express music and love and the things that I have felt in their own proper language – not like this, not like this with the procession of particular English verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns and prepositions that rolls before you now towards this full-stop and the coming paragraph of yet more words.

The Greeks created gods that were in their image; warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate, but vengeful.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you’d be mad not to loathe them.