Stephen Fry attends the UK Premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness at The Empire Cinema on May 2, 2013 in London, England.

Stephen Fry: If there is one [tartan] that you most certainly can wear, it is the Royal Stuart, because we can all wear the tartan of our chieftain. And constitutionally Her Maj is our chieftain. And therefore we, if we’re British subjects, can wear it, too. 
Sandy Toksvig: So I couldn’t wear it, then? 
Stephen Fry: You’re not a British subject, are you? 
Sandy Toksvig: No, I’m Danish. 
Stephen Fry: You’re Danish. Is there a Danish tartan? 
Sandy Toksvig: No! 
Stephen Fry: Made of a pastry of some kind. 
Sandy Toksvig: [laughs] Yes, that’s our entire culture in a nutshell. You forgot the porn films, you silly boy! 

“On one hand we want the world to be perfect but we don’t want to pay more tax. We want the environment sorted and to keep our cars. No one can square these circles. […] We think that what’s wrong with the country is not us, but the person next to us. We prefer to say it’s the fault of some Scot who happens to be the Prime Minister – that’s just not the way the world works, in my view.” — [x]

“Everyone I know, whom I deeply respect and like and think is honest, would never become a politician, because they’re not allowed to be normal human beings by the press, by us.” — [x]

“I have always disbelieved that Sicilian saying about revenge being a dish best served cold. I feel that—don’t you?—when I see blinking, quivering octogenarian Nazi war criminals being led away in chains. Why not then? It’s too late now. I want to see them taken back in time and punished then […] Blame, certainly, is a dish only edible when served fresh and warm. Old blames, grudges and scores congeal and curdle and cause the most terrible indigestion.” — Moab Is My Washpot