Stephen Fry Quotes - Page 7

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

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.

One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.

I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

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

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

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

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.