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Stephen Fry Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“Little girls grow up to be women, little boys grow up to be little boys.”
— Stephen Fry, The Liar
Tagged: Women, Girls, boys
“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.”
— Stephen Fry, More Fool Me: A Memoir
Tagged: Depression, Questions, Friendship
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
— Stephen Fry, We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
Tagged: Education, Learning, Students
“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both.”
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
Tagged: Music, Choices, miley cyrus, Mozart
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: Love, Art, beauty, Life
“Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: Sex, smiling, vodka, Alcohol
“It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.”
— Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
Tagged: Cliches, Truth, Lies
“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: teenagers, Misunderstood, complaints
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
— Stephen Fry, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Literary Quotations
Tagged: Books, Reading, kindle, ebooks
“Better sexy and racy than sexist and racist.”
— Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
Tagged: Sexy, Sexist, racist
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing — they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
— Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, The Art of Awareness, The Person You'll Become
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