Top 200 Stewart Stafford Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Niagara falls, Viagra rises.”

— Stewart Stafford

102. “At the darkest time of year, Lord Yule laid down his beard of snow and cloak of frost and ice to illuminate the gloom.”

— Stewart Stafford

103. “Whether it’s personal foibles or a bureaucrat’s ego, the stubborn defence of stupidity is unforgivable.”

— Stewart Stafford

104. “The concept of good versus evil is a handy construct for framing a narrative. When you see someone applying that concept to real-world events, however, be aware that you’re in the presence of a peddler of fiction.”

— Stewart Stafford

105. “Perception is nine-tenths of the natural law.”

— Stewart Stafford

106. “Quoting someone and rewriting their words makes it a quote from you and not them any longer. To change the meaning of someone’s words without permission is offensive enough, to then contact the quoted person and try to justify it to them is even worse. It’s verbatim or bust!”

— Stewart Stafford

107. “Spies are, by nature and necessity, pathological liars who strive to make their endgames justify their meanness.”

— Stewart Stafford

108. “One man’s generalisation is another man’s succinct yet profound summation of a complex theory or argument.”

— Stewart Stafford

109. “The apotheosis of the controlling mind is monstrous and terrifying.”

— Stewart Stafford

110. “Applying logic to potentially illogical behaviour is to construct a house on shifting foundations. The structure will inevitably collapse.”

— Stewart Stafford

111. “When the hysteria of a witch-hunt is granted supremacy over the logic, values and spirit of the law, justice can only become a warped, alien concept in that society.”

— Stewart Stafford

112. “The curtain rises even on an actor’s worst day.”

— Stewart Stafford

113. “What’s the difference between fact and opinion? Fact is the centre of the wheel and opinions are the myriad spokes emanating out from it.”

— Stewart Stafford

114. “Words don’t get lost in translation, they get remixed. Just watch what happens to this quote.”

— Stewart Stafford

115. “People will always surprise you if you give them a chance.”

— Stewart Stafford

116. “The privilege of living a long life comes at a price -the increasing loss of those we know and love around us.”

— Stewart Stafford

117. “Do not weep for those who have found Death’s embrace early, for they weep for us that linger on in this mortal world of pain.”

— Stewart Stafford

118. “Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.”

— Stewart Stafford

119. “Never listen to destructive criticism – it’s only meant to silence you.”

— Stewart Stafford

120. “The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.”

— Stewart Stafford

121. “Assuming things is the equivalent of sleepwalking blindfolded on a cliff edge fully expecting a safety net to be there to break the fall should you topple over the precipice. In one moment, a leap of logic becomes a fall from grace.”

— Stewart Stafford

122. “Begone, O frightful wig of deceit!”

— Stewart Stafford

123. “You know what really wears you out? People telling you that you look tired all the time!”

— Stewart Stafford

124. “If you must trip, at least try to fall into good company.”

— Stewart Stafford

125. “Empires fall and drag their brands of civilization down with them.”

— Stewart Stafford

126. “The tide of hope approaches us and recedes from us as we stand on the mortal shore – some of us wait for it to arrive, some chase after it, but we all vanish into the sunset and our footprints in the sand fade in time. The feet of infants replace ours, and the dance of the tide commences anew.”

— Stewart Stafford

127. “Boasting about wealth is an open invitation to others to divest you of it.”

— Stewart Stafford

128. “Halloween is a celebration of the inversion of reality and a necessary Gothic hat-tip to the darker aspects of life, death and ourselves.”

— Stewart Stafford

129. “Closure is when raw memory blurs to become the folklore of life.”

— Stewart Stafford

130. “To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.”

— Stewart Stafford

131. “Anyone who dies by their own hand always has my sympathy. It’s easy to sit in judgement on another’s struggle from the outside without ever living in their suffocating darkness. If there is an explanation left behind, it usually confirms how relentlessly harsh and unfair they were on themselves. Mourn their release with mercy and gratitude for doing what they were capable of in their short lives.”

— Stewart Stafford

132. “Once you understand and appreciate nature’s beauty and complexity, you can protect it and get the most from it.”

— Stewart Stafford

133. “The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.”

— Stewart Stafford

134. “When the flood of truth becomes a drought, the lush throats of liars shall shrilly fill the vacuum with their false fruit. None shall taste its maggoty putrescence and devour it whole.”

— Stewart Stafford

135. “You only really stop being an immigrant when you reject other immigrants and try to slam the door in their faces when they try to emulate you.”

— Stewart Stafford

136. “Reunions are the first day of school all over again. Time casts away familiarity and replaces it with warm confusion. Seeing how the years have frayed the friends of our youth reminds us that we too have irrevocably changed and can never return to a state of innocence again.”

— Stewart Stafford

137. “Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper’s hibernation until Valentine’s Day.”

— Stewart Stafford

138. “If someone threatens you for telling a joke, that’s all the more reason to tell it. Humour is the perfect antidote to fanaticism.”

— Stewart Stafford

139. “Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”

— Stewart Stafford

140. “I once witnessed a rather unfortunate production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet – the lead actor didn’t know his existential angst from his iambic pentameter and, alas, poor Yorick was a bemused bystander.”

— Stewart Stafford

141. “If I wake up in the morning and see a bedroom ceiling, I say: “Another day? Let’s go!” If I woke up and saw a wooden coffin or urn lid, I’d probably say: “Oh... back to bed.”

— Stewart Stafford

142. “Marriage is the Rubik’s Cube of the 21st Century – something young people are fascinated with but have no idea how to do.”

— Stewart Stafford

143. “Never enter the home of another with dust on your shoes and selfish expectations in your heart.”

— Stewart Stafford

144. “Micro-managing creativity kills it. To encourage creative brilliance, foster an atmosphere where it can thrive and then step out of the way and let it happen.”

— Stewart Stafford

145. “Questioning the morals, motives, and actions of a nation-state is not an expression of hatred for it or its predominant religion.”

— Stewart Stafford

146. “Nature, with its paradoxical twin firmaments of breathtaking beauty and extreme cruelty, never explains itself and cares even less for our admiration and acceptance.”

— Stewart Stafford

147. “A great story can change the world.”

— Stewart Stafford

148. “A superhero is just an ordinary person who has found a better way to mask their human frailties.”

— Stewart Stafford

149. “Truth is a well we all draw from and slowly poison, as we use it in ways for which it was never intended.”

— Stewart Stafford

150. “Shock is when language and emotion get overwritten by trauma’s numbing code.”

— Stewart Stafford