Stephen Fry

Citations

• “My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm coming out one of those."”

• “My vocal cords are made of tweed. I give off an air of Oxford donnishness and old BBC wirelesses.”

• “Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.”

• “… but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. 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.”

• “It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.”