Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. — Stephen Fry

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed. — Stephen Fry

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. — Stephen Fry

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in. — Stephen Fry

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. — Stephen Fry

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. — Stephen Fry

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge. — Stephen Fry

If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people in the world? — Stephen Fry

Sometimes there just isn’t enough vomit in the world. — Stephen Fry

There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world. — Stephen Fry

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it’s an endless stalemate. — Stephen Fry

You can’t just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. — Stephen Fry

For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite. — Stephen Fry

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it. — Stephen Fry

I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods. — Stephen Fry

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. — Stephen Fry

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension. — Stephen Fry

I’m afraid I don’t believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith. — Stephen Fry

I knew I couldn’t believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook. — Stephen Fry

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I’d rather describe myself as a humanist… I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe there is a God. — Stephen Fry

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won’t chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we’ll get lost. — Stephen Fry

I never quite dare to believe I’m brave enough to be an artist, but I’m on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart. — Stephen Fry

The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies. — Stephen Fry

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he? — Stephen Fry

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes. — Stephen Fry

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry

You have already achieved the English–Language poet’s most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence. — Stephen Fry

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. — Stephen Fry

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up. — Stephen Fry

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of. — Stephen Fry

It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing, and without enjoying swearing. — Stephen Fry

I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, ‘In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing. — Stephen Fry

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship’. — Stephen Fry

There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life. — Stephen Fry

Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. — Stephen Fry

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books. — Stephen Fry

Philosophy is an odd thing… There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life. — Stephen Fry

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

Life is sometimes novel–shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life–shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality. — Stephen Fry

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red–hot pokers or iron thumb–screws. — Stephen Fry

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

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

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

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave. — Stephen Fry

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery. — Stephen Fry

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. — Stephen Fry

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that’s… and it’s working that out is part of growing up. — Stephen Fry

This year, the stars have colluded and collided in such a way to make the baftas coincide with valentine’s day, love between two women, love between roman catholic priests … and… their lawyers. — Stephen Fry

You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that. — Stephen Fry

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! — Stephen Fry

My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true. — Stephen Fry

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. — Stephen Fry

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them. — Stephen Fry

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not. — Stephen Fry

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film. — Stephen Fry

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you. — Stephen Fry

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone’s staring at them, and they’ve kind of got railings around them, and they’re rather miserable most of the time. — Stephen Fry

My first words, as I was being born […] I looked up at my mother and said, ‘that’s the last time I’m going up one of those. — Stephen Fry

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time. — Stephen Fry

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages. — Stephen Fry

It’s extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid. — Stephen Fry

You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. — Stephen Fry

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

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous… the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe… essence — Stephen Fry

When push–off comes to shove–off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate. — Stephen Fry