Stephen Fry Quotes

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

The voice that arms itself to be heard. / The face that hides itself to be seen.

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

The mirror can lie. Doesn't show you what's inside. And it, it can tell you you're full of life. It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?