Quotes by Stephen Fry
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I’m going to do next.”— Stephen Fry
“One of the great secrets of conversation is to know not only what to say, but also what not to say.”— Stephen Fry
“Bone-chillingly, it is true that to be a success in life, you don't have to be particularly gifted, you just have to be a little bit less incompetent than the rivals.”— Stephen Fry
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine.”— Stephen Fry
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing of the human race.”— Stephen Fry
“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”— Stephen Fry
“It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.”— Stephen Fry
“The work of a critic is easy. It is the writer who has the difficult task, and who is often the loneliest.”— Stephen Fry
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything.”— Stephen Fry