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.
BEN ELTONYou’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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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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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I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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