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A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

Stephen Fry

Careers, Heaven, Training

Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.72, The Overlook Press

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

Stephen Fry

Adventure, Past, Triumph

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

Stephen Fry

Revenge, Animated Series, Kill Bill

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

Stephen Fry

Cute, Gay, Racism

Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.128, The Overlook Press

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Stephen Fry

Sexuality, Gender, Homophobes

Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

Stephen Fry

Gay, Kissing, Thinking

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

Stephen Fry

Husband, Names, Married

"A Bit of Fry and Laurie". www.imdb.com. 1987 - 1995.

The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

Stephen Fry

Past, Afternoon

Stephen Fry (1994). “The Hippopotamus”, Soho PressInc

You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

Stephen Fry

Mean, Phrases, Wells

I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

Stephen Fry

Woods, Facts, Accepting

Twitter post from Dec 7, 2009

I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.