I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
BEN ELTONI think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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