This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact. The device has similarities to the device th...
ALAN FRY This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact, ... The device has similarities to the devic...
ALAN FRY clearly the sort of weapon we believe was used in this attack is known to be in the hands of certain...
ALAN FRY An examination of the exterior of the building would show some form of small missile hit the buildin...
ALAN FRY The task of police was made much more difficult if not impossible by the failure to give a precise l...
ALAN FRY This was a calculated, evil act by people who were seeking to maim and kill. We are extremely fortun...
ALAN FRY I am afraid there are two dead.
ALAN FRY I am linking the crimes. We are treating this as a racist offense.
ALAN FRY Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
CHRISTOPHER FRY I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...
STEPHEN FRY If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the m...
STEPHEN FRY We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I...
STEPHEN FRY I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except...
CHRISTOPHER FRY You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the sa...
STEPHEN FRY Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word....
CHRISTOPHER FRY Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty pur...
STEPHEN FRY The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into...
CHRISTOPHER FRY Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
CHRISTOPHER FRY The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter...
CHRISTOPHER FRY Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
CHRISTOPHER FRY The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; th...
ELIZABETH FRY There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will l...
STEPHEN FRY I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren'...
STEPHEN FRY I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and ...
STEPHEN FRY The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that ...
STEPHEN FRY I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled tog...
HAYDEN FRY I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and t...
STEPHEN FRY It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...
STEPHEN FRY Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
STEPHEN FRY Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRY I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting...
STEPHEN FRY You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an e...
STEPHEN FRY Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...
STEPHEN FRY Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he cover...
MARTIN FRY It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in com...
STEPHEN FRY I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down ...
STEPHEN FRY One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
JEFFREY FRY Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go ...
STEPHEN FRY Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
JEFFREY FRY Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
JEFFREY FRY Mental health is one of the last great taboos.
STEPHEN FRY No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all ...
STEPHEN FRY Art is significant deformity.
ROGER FRY Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback...
CHRISTOPHER FRY I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
MARTIN FRY The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.
JEFFREY FRY Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But tr...
JEFFREY FRY My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRY Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its win...
CHRISTOPHER FRY You are who you are when nobody's watching.
STEPHEN FRY If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a st...
STEPHEN FRY I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary...
STEPHEN FRY I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it w...
STEPHEN FRY Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRY As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound...
STEPHEN FRY They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we...
STEPHEN FRY Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian
ROGER FRY I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Aust...
LUCY FRY I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m...
HAYDEN FRY When it's football season, I'm all football.
HAYDEN FRY It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symp...
STEPHEN FRY I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be o...
STEPHEN FRY If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll ...
STEPHEN FRY I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing r...
STEPHEN FRY It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an emai...
STEPHEN FRY It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue
STEPHEN FRY Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone
ELIZABETH FRY I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been de...
ELIZABETH FRY It's all to make people aware of violence and safety in the evenings, and the different things that ...
ELIZABETH FRY Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jon...
STEPHEN FRY Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRY Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appe...
STEPHEN FRY When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off.
JEFFREY FRY I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences...
STEPHEN FRY Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to expe...
STEPHEN FRY He looked like a midget standing next to it.
KEVIN FRY Eight of the teams believe one interpretation and Ferrari have a slightly different interpretation.
NICK FRY 'Take Back the Night' isn't just about domestic violence, 'Take Back the Night' is also about being ...
ELIZABETH FRY Everyone is invited, it doesn't cost anything, it's free to everyone we're really hoping to have som...
ELIZABETH FRY Does Capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of me...
ELIZABETH FRY I could rent a room, paint it black, bolt on a few chains and call it my punishment room, Then have ...
STEPHEN FRY I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowe...
STEPHEN FRY I don't think the bitterest enemy of the Perrier Award could deny that it has spotted some real tale...
STEPHEN FRY I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRY Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least doe...
STEPHEN FRY If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so...
STEPHEN FRY I think animal testing is cruel. They get nervous and get all the answers wrong.
STEPHEN FRY Mark has identified that he would like Lee on a permanent basis,
BARRY FRY Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck at it no matter how much heat or pressure they faced.
JEFFREY FRY No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel.
JEFFREY FRY It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mist...
JEFFREY FRY When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRY We're not keen on the idea of freezing the whole engine. It makes it very impractical for all the en...
NICK FRY Deep breaths are very useful with shallow people.
JEFFREY FRY It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. I...
STEPHEN FRY Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are...
STEPHEN FRY The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
CHRISTOPHER FRY He was so proud to be there doing what he was doing. Not just the war part ... but the Marines and a...
BETH FRY He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...
STEPHEN FRY He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble...
STEPHEN FRY He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He m...
STEPHEN FRY I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a pa...
STEPHEN FRY He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...
STEPHEN FRY The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insul...
STEPHEN FRY Other people's tears were more than Adrian could cope with. Did you put an arm round them? Did you p...
STEPHEN FRY The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to...
STEPHEN FRY As Adrian hurried past the Senate House he noticed two old men standing outside Bowes and Bowes. He ...
STEPHEN FRY We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am ...
STEPHEN FRY It is perfectly possible to live a life from cradle to grave that is entirely dishonest.One might ne...
STEPHEN FRY I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, "In this life one should try everything once except inces...
STEPHEN FRY Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercise...
STEPHEN FRY Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, ho...
STEPHEN FRY All gone. All anger quelled, all desire drained, all thirst slaked, all madness past.
STEPHEN FRY There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.
STEPHEN FRY He was always doing that these days. Everything he saw became a symbol of his own existence, from a ...
STEPHEN FRY He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the tr...
STEPHEN FRY That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine"

Which was about all he seemed to have. H...
STEPHEN FRY Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, lang...
STEPHEN FRY But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as t...
STEPHEN FRY Little girls grow up to be women, little boys grow up to be little boys.
STEPHEN FRY Books are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religion, but when it comes to worsh...
STEPHEN FRY I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look f...
STEPHEN FRY Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishma...
STEPHEN FRY Not one word of the following is true
STEPHEN FRY It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked b...
STEPHEN FRY My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a ...
STEPHEN FRY Better sexy and racy
Than sexist and racist
STEPHEN FRY Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befri...
STEPHEN FRY I didn't have any idea what happened to Ivory. I assumed he went back to California.
HAYDEN FRY (The military) wanted to give him the Bronze Star for his injury, and he wouldn't accept it. He said...
BETH FRY He was a person who knew exactly what he wanted to do and was willing to make the sacrifice to do it...
BETH FRY True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.
JEFFREY FRY It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.
MARTIN FRY Just because our brains are limited in size, does not mean our minds need be.
JEFFREY FRY I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily ba...
STEPHEN FRY We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
STEPHEN FRY There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphr...
STEPHEN FRY I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that ...
STEPHEN FRY The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, v...
STEPHEN FRY It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of t...
STEPHEN FRY I’m not even tone deaf, that’s the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing....
STEPHEN FRY Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
STEPHEN FRY Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, t...
STEPHEN FRY The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic resul...
STEPHEN FRY Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has ...
STEPHEN FRY I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as...
STEPHEN FRY There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into wh...
STEPHEN FRY Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to...
STEPHEN FRY Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their...
STEPHEN FRY I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.
STEPHEN FRY Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually ...
STEPHEN FRY Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of tooth...
STEPHEN FRY None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have al...
STEPHEN FRY As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement an...
STEPHEN FRY Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that ...
STEPHEN FRY Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.
STEPHEN FRY I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less ...
STEPHEN FRY Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
STEPHEN FRY I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the hear...
STEPHEN FRY And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again.

The sky was never the same colou...
STEPHEN FRY People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
STEPHEN FRY It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...
STEPHEN FRY Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the wor...
STEPHEN FRY I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He i...
STEPHEN FRY Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you...
JEFFREY FRY What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean
CHRISTOPHER FRY To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily t...
STEPHEN FRY What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean
CHRISTOPHER FRY Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
CHRISTOPHER FRY When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got h...
HAYDEN FRY Always fornicate / Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.
CHRISTOPHER FRY The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into...
CHRISTOPHER FRY An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRY When I first saw this place, in its bones, it reminded me of Augusta National, what with its (clubho...
DAVID FRY I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
CHRISTOPHER FRY Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
CHRISTOPHER FRY I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which...
STEPHEN FRY I played in the chapel on Sundays, then moved on to polishing corridors.
STEPHEN FRY The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can
CHRISTOPHER FRY Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY I will never be normal. Normal is just another word for average.
JEFFREY FRY Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.
JEFFREY FRY What a poor life I have had if I am only remembered for the amount of money I made.
JEFFREY FRY Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guar...
STEPHEN FRY