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
Compromise is a stalling between two fools. - Stephen Fry
How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises? - Stephen Fry
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. - Stephen Fry
...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it. - Stephen Fry
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. - Stephen Fry
I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. - Stephen Fry
I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing. - Stephen Fry
I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from suicidal ideation on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, the thought of ending my life came to me frequently and obsessively. - 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
There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.'(Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s) - Stephen Fry
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face. - Stephen Fry
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. - Stephen Fry
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up. - Stephen Fry
You are who you are when nobody's watching. - Stephen Fry
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. - 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