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

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I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#brilliance #detecting #fooled #high #i

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#common #english #how #much #only

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

— Stephen Fry

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

— Stephen Fry

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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#better #child #christmas #first #hopefully

Generally, we admire the thing we are not. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#generally #thing

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#art #destroys #i #i think #oneself

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#exhausting #knowing #letter #most #phone

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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