Stephen Fry

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#back #cheerfulness #extra #height #inches

But happiness is no respecter of persons. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#persons

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#country #down #feel #head #i

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#down #home #i #like #myself

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#details #future #i #i think #into

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cambridge #corner #grow #i #quietly

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#coward #enough #i #lazy #oddly

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cliches #like #most #then #true

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#faculties #just #lose #never #old

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#much #tv #window #world