613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

I never quite dare to believe I’m brave enough to be an artist, but I’m on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.

I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one’s lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.

Thanatos, the grim, forbidding figure of Death.

Poseidon spent almost all his time pursuing a perfectly exhausting quantity of beautiful girls and boys and fathering by the girls an even greater number of monsters, demigods and human heroes – Percy Jackson and Theseus to name but two.

When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn’t Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

Such attitudes are grotesque, impudent and irrelevant. ‘Could do better’ is a meaningless conclusion. ‘Could be happier’ is the only one that counts.

It’s extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.