Stephen Fry quotes

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.