Stephen Fry Quotes - Page 2

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

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.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.