Stephen Fry Quotes

The French don't believe custard exists.

*swoon* *dribble* *froth* At MIT being shown the future. Robotics, VR, so many toys, so little time xxx

If you are an adult you want something surprising, savoury, sharp, unusual, cosmopolitan, alien, challenging, complex, ambiguous, possibly even slightly disturbing and wrong.

If you have an object in your pocket or hand for hours every day, then your relationship with it is profound, human and emotional. Apple's success has been founded on consumer products that address this side of us: their products make users smile as they reach forward to manipulate, touch, fondle, slide, tweak, pinch, prod and stroke.

I feel sorry for straight men. The only reason women will have sex with them is that sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship with a man, which is what they want.

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got.

I'm passionate about language, the transmission of ideas, and thinking about things.

I was born 50.

My nerdy heart beats faster every time I look at it.

3 months is a year in new technology.

The only people who have really succeeded are the ones who have said "Oh god, this is fun!"

I like horses but I'm still going to drive a car.

At my age, travel broadens the behind

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

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

My name is Stephen 'My bottom is a treasure house' Fry.

I will apologise for faithlessness, neglect, deceit, cruelty, unkindness, vanity or meanness, but I will not apologise for the urgings of my genitals nor, most certainly, will I ever apologise for the urgings of my heart.

Only to a dullard is language a means of communication and nothing more. It would be like saying sex is a means of reproduction and no more and food a means of fuelling and no more. In life you have to explain wine. You have to explain cheese. You have to explain love. You can’t, but you have to try, or [...] surely, to be aware of the astonishing fact of them.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

To be gorgeous and high and true and fine and fluffy and moist and sticky and lovely, all you have to do is to believe that one is gorgeous and high and true and fine and fluffy and moist and sticky and lovely. And I believe it of myself, tremulously at first and then with mounting heat and passion because, stopping off for a second to be super again...That's the secret really.