Zitate und Sprüche von Stephen Fry

My first words, as I was being born I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm going up one of those!"

I called JK up and said, "Look, do you mind, I can't say 'Harry pocketed-ed it'. Would it be okay if I said 'Harry put it in his pocket'?" There was a big pause at the end of the line, then she said, "No" in her best witch's voice. I could hear her smile as she said it.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It's always there. The truth. You just need to look for it.

Sometimes, you must dangle your feet in the water to attract the sharks.

You rarely find that kidnap victims have planned for their own disappearance.

Look for what's there, not what you want to be there.

Remember, remember ...the fifth of november

For 20 years, I sought only this day. Nothing else existed... until I saw you. Then everything changed. I fell in love with you Evey. And to think I no longer believed I could.

There are no coincidences, Delia... only the illusion of coincidence.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.

Alice: "How long is forever?"
White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

It is impossible only if you think it is.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I'm not a hero, or a warrior... not even a burglar.

Go back to your books, your fireplace. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more of us valued home above gold, it would be a merrier world.

Lord Melchett: "Ah, Blackadder, talking to yourself, I see."
Blackadder: "Yes, it's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation."

Mrs M, if we were the last three humans on earth, I would be trying to start a family with Baldrick.

They do say, Mrs M, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork into your head.

Baldrick, I want you to take this and go out and buy a turkey so large, you'd think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus.

Baldrick, believe me, eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me - and THIS pencil.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.