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.
BEN ELTONI 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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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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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 try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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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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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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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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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