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Stephen Fry Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of being rejected.”
— Stephen Fry, Making History
Tagged: Suffering, Love, Humiliation, Shame, Rejected
“First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge. It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb…It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single…human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.”
— Stephen Fry, First Love Is Always Unrequited- Video
Tagged: First Love, Unrequited
“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
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
Tagged: incurious, curiousity, Learning
“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
“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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