Stephen Fry Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

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

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.54, Random House

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

  Stephen Fry

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2009

• Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

  Stephen Fry

  Coffee, Book, Reading

• All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!

  Stephen Fry

  Reading, People, Mad

  "Stephen Fry — Last Chance to Think". Interview with Kylie Sturgess, www.csicop.org. 2010.

• I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "I saw hate in a graveyard - Stephen Fry". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

• Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

  Stephen Fry

  Horse, Sorry, Laughter

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