Stephen Fry Quotes

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

Liberals are about to become the last people to figure out that Arabs lie.

There is less Francophobia in your country than there is anti-Americanism in my country.

I don't really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I've been bred to despise them with the same zeal as soccer and Renny Harlin films.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.

Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.

I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, 'Oh, American accent - therefore, you like cowboy boots.'

I am always getting messages that I am paid by America, that I work for America, that I am connected with CIA... blah blah blah. I am not working for America, I am working for my country's good, but America is not an enemy for me.

I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.

President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

There was a lot of prejudice towards Russians in Latvia. When I went to school, often Latvians didn't like me, and Russians and Latvians didn't like Americans, so that was a whole other prejudice.

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket."

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.