More Fool Me Quotes

“Counterintuitively, self-hatred is one of the leading symptoms of clinical narcissism. Only by telling yourself and the world how much you hate yourself can you receive the reliable shower of praise and admiration in response that you feel you deserve … ”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“My own view is that, since we have it and since it gives such pleasure to so many, especially around the world, it would be folly to get rid of it. The backside of whom are we going to lick when we send a letter in the Republic of Britain? William Hague? Harriet Harman? An elected British President will not glamourize the heads of state of other countries when they come on a state visit. Compared to carriages, crowns, orbs and ermine, an entry-level Jaguar and Marks & Spencer suit offer no edge over other nations when vying for trade advantages. By definition half the country will despise a Labour President or a Conservative one, and you can bet your bottom dollar that politicians will ensure that, if we do become a republic, there will be little other choice than the major parties. Which, at the time of writing, might include UKIP. Lovely.”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“Princess Diana holds in the threshold for a second longer, checks over her shoulder that her Prince is out of earshot and whispers softly in my ear, ‘Sorry to leave early, though secretly I’m quite glad. It’s Spitting Image tonight, and I want to watch it in my room. They hate it of course. I absolutely adore it.”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“wisdom is the ability to cope”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“That’s why I love talking and teaching: the act of reproducing ideas out loud reinforces them in the head. If, every time you read a complex book or idea, you had to explain it to someone else, you’d never forget it.”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“Religionists from pulpits and evangelical TV stations announced that this [AIDS] was all God’s punishment for the perverted vice of homosexuality, quite failing to explain why this vengeful deity had no interest in visiting plagues and agonized death upon child rapists, torturers, murderers, those who beat up old women for their pension money (or indeed those cheating, thieving, adulterous and hypocritical clerics and preachers who pop up on the news from time to time weeping their repentance), reserving this uniquely foul pestilence only for men who choose to go to bed with each other and addicts careless in the use of their syringes. What a strange divinity. Later he was to take his pleasure, as he still does, on horrifying numbers of women and very young girls raped in sub-Saharan Africa while transmitting his avenging wrath on the unborn children in their wombs. I should be interested to hear from the religious zealots why he is doing this and what kind of a kick he gets out of it.”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“If only at school, geography teachers, surely the most scoffed and pilloried class of pedagogue there is, if only they had concentrated less on rift valleys, trig points and the major exports of Indonesia and more on the fact that geography could promise a classy royal society with the sexiest lecture theatre in the land.”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“well, as Auden wondered: Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love.”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“If days be good, they shall pass, which is a lowering thought. If they be bad, they shall pass, which is cheering.”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“Хорошее время пройдет, и это печальная мысль. Но и дурное пройдет, а это мысль радостная. Полагаю, довольно помнить об этом и, сталкиваясь с непоправимой, бессмысленной глупостью нашего мира, находить в этой мысли малое утешение; быть немного похожим на созданного Рафаэлем Сабатини Скарамуша, который «появился на свет, умея смеяться и сознавать безумие мира».”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“– Мудрость? Мудрость? Хорошенькое дело. Я думаю, что мудрость – это, пожалуй, способность к преодолению, нет?”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“Какой смысл быть блестящим, привлекательным, интеллигентным и молодым, если ты не согреваешь этими качествами тех, кто старше тебя.”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me

“oneiromancy”
― Stephen Fry, More Fool Me