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“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".”

Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”

Stephen Fry

Source: The Fry Chronicles

“Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”

Stephen Fry

“Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History

“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

“We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.”

Stephen Fry

“My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.”

Stephen Fry book The Liar

Source: The Liar

“I have Van Gogh's ear for music”

Stephen Fry

“Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.”

Stephen Fry

Source: The Fry Chronicles

“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 book Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

“Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.”

Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot

1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Source: Moab Is My Washpot

“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

“It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.”

Stephen Fry book The Liar

Source: The Liar

“You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.”

Stephen Fry