Stephen Fry Quote Generator

1.  "Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whisky." - Stephen Fry

2.  "If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words - strike that, I love words - and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too." - Stephen Fry

3.  "The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore." - Stephen Fry

4.  "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." - Stephen Fry

5.  "I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. 'And you so intelligent!' 'Excuse me?' said Tom. 'Knowing those things are going to kill you,' she said 'and still you do it.' 'How differently I might behave,' Tom said, 'if immortality were an option.'" - Stephen Fry

6.  "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?" - Stephen Fry

7.  "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." - Stephen Fry

8.  "The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Schubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face." - Stephen Fry

9.  "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

10.  "I can't pretend to be much of a judge of poetry; I'm an English teacher, not a homosexual." - Stephen Fry