The best Quotes by Stephen Fry

My first words, as I was being born I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm going up one of those!"

Funny Quotes

I called JK up and said, "Look, do you mind, I can't say 'Harry pocketed-ed it'. Would it be okay if I said 'Harry put it in his pocket'?" There was a big pause at the end of the line, then she said, "No" in her best witch's voice. I could hear her smile as she said it.

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Joanne K. Rowling Quotes about Harry Potter

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

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

Books

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

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

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles

It's always there. The truth. You just need to look for it.

Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes

Sometimes, you must dangle your feet in the water to attract the sharks.

Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes

Sharks

You rarely find that kidnap victims have planned for their own disappearance.

Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes

Look for what's there, not what you want to be there.

Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes

Remember, remember ...the fifth of november

V in V for Vendetta

For 20 years, I sought only this day. Nothing else existed... until I saw you. Then everything changed. I fell in love with you Evey. And to think I no longer believed I could.

V for Vendetta

There are no coincidences, Delia... only the illusion of coincidence.

V in V for Vendetta

Chance & Randomness

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.

V in V for Vendetta

Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.

V in V for Vendetta

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.

Alice In Wonderland

Objectives

Alice: "How long is forever?"
White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

It is impossible only if you think it is.

The Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland

I'm not crazy - my reality is just different from yours.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

Craziness & Weirdness

Mad Hatter: "Have I gone Mad?"
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Hugh Laurie

Coffee

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

Hugh Laurie

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie

Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

Hugh Laurie

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

Hugh Laurie

Motorbikes

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Courage

If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?

Tauriel in The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies

Breakup

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Greed Wise Sayings

I'm not a hero, or a warrior... not even a burglar.

Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Go back to your books, your fireplace. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more of us valued home above gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies

Home

Lord Melchett: "Ah, Blackadder, talking to yourself, I see."
Blackadder: "Yes, it's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation."