Latest Quotes

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both.”

— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn't the real problem. The real problem is that we don't trust.”

— L.J Vanier, Ether: Into the Nemesis

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”

— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because d…”

— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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

— Stephen Fry, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Literary Quotations

“Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!”

— Eddie Izzard, Definite Article

“To think too much is a disease.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From The Underground

“To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

“Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more. Damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial.”

— Russell Brand, Articles of Faith

“I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

“Even as a junkie I stayed true to vegetarianism. I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger. What a sexy little paradox.”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”

— Ricky Gervais, Outsoaring the Shadow: Atheistic thoughts on life and death

“The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.'”

— Ricky Gervais, Words from the Wise: Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said

“Once you stop being in love with someone completely, that’s when you should check out of the relationship...But when you fall in love with someone a second time it means that you’re seeing them with a fresh pair of eyes. You’re re-remembering all the things that turned you on to them in the first pl…”

— Madison Moore, You Should Fall In Love With Them A Second Time

“Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.”

— Ricky Gervais, 1000 Amazing Quotes

“That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.”

— Ricky Gervais, Best Life

“The second time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to feel so relieved. When you get your heart broken for the first time, you can’t imagine loving someone else again or having someone else love you.”

— Ryan O'Connell, The Second Time You Fall In Love With Someone

“You know I got the sauce (sauce), you know I'm saucy”

— Rihanna, Sex With Me