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born 1957 England

Stephen John Fry (born August 24, 1957) is a British writer, comedian, actor, broadcaster and director.

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She has a very intense poetic mind. That's what makes it — that voice that comes in.

The Kate Bush Story (2014)

The beauty of the brain is that you can still be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn’t show.

Radio Times interview (2013)

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

There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

He takes coke and has slept with a prostitute - but he's a TV presenter for God's sake!

My mother has an absolute passion for sour fruit and can strip a gooseberry bush quicker than a priest can strip a choirboy.

Moab is My Washpot (1997)

Dacre is, all those who have had the misfortune to work for him assure me, just about as loathsome, self-regarding, morally putrid, vengeful and disgusting a man as it possible to be.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The Liar (1991)

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Moab is My Washpot (1997)

God once had Bach and Michelangelo on his side, he had Mozart, and now who does he have? People with ginger whiskers and tinted spectacles who reduce the glories of theology to a kind of sharing.

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

It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.

Moab is My Washpot (1997)

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.

Weak watery sun, but sun nonetheless. Why does it take me nearly 2 hours just to get through the morning emails? Pah, poo and pants.

I think it was Horry Walpole who remarked, “In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.” It is an excellent rule, as I remarked to my mother in bed last night.

The Liar (1991)

I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday . . . mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

Moab is My Washpot (1997)

My vocal cords are made of tweed. I give off an air of Oxford donnishness and old BBC wirelesses.

Moab is My Washpot (1997)

On the e-book Poets Against the War.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Fry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.