Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Fry (English Actor, Writer)

Stephen John Fry (b.1957) is an English actor, writer, director, and broadcaster. He is known mainly for his virtuosic command and comical abuse of the English language—in both speech and writing.

Born in London, Fry studied at Queen’s College-Cambridge, where he appeared in over 30 plays. He wrote his first play Latin (1980,) which won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival of that year and appeared with the Cambridge Footlights revue. He also wrote the book for the long-running West End-musical Me and My Girl (1984.)

Fry and his Cambridge Footlights associate Hugh Laurie appeared in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–95,) Jeeves and Wooster (1990–93,) and the film Peter’s Friends (1992.) Fry was also on television in Stalag Luft (1993) and Cold Comfort Farm (1995.)

Fry’s stage appearances include Forty Years On (1984,) The Common Pursuit (1988,) and Look Look (1990.) He was in the films A Handful of Dust (1988,) A Fish Called Wanda (1988,) and the Oscar Wilde biopic Wilde (1996.) His bestselling novels include The Liar (1991,) The Hippopotamus (1994,) and Making History (1996.)

Fry caused a media sensation in 1995 when he walked out of the Simon Gray play Cell Mates (1995,) before its opening in London’s West End, and vanished to Belgium without a trace. He later ascribed these events to a bipolar disorder and embarked on a campaign to help raise awareness for the challenges of bipolar disorder; he made the documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2006.) In 2003, he launched the panel quiz programme QI.

Fry is also outspoken about suicide following an attempt to kill himself in 2012.

Fry’s multivolume autobiographies are Moab Is My Washpot (1997,) The Fry Chronicles (2010,) and More Fool Me (2014.)

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The best move in chess is not the best chess move, but the move that your opponent least wants you to play.
—Stephen Fry

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
—Stephen Fry

It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.
—Stephen Fry

It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.
—Stephen Fry

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
—Stephen Fry

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
—Stephen Fry

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
—Stephen Fry
Topics: Christmas

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.
—Stephen Fry

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t.
—Stephen Fry

A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.
—Stephen Fry

An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
—Stephen Fry
Topics: Ideas

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

One of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective.
—Stephen Fry

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
—Stephen Fry

You don’t need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
—Stephen Fry
Topics: Management

When I was at Cambridge it was, naturally enough, I felt, my ambition to be approached in some way by an elderly homosexual don and asked to spy for or against my country.
—Stephen Fry

The beauty of the brain is that you can still be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn’t show.
—Stephen Fry

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
—Stephen Fry

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.
—Stephen Fry

How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that’s the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.
—Stephen Fry

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