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 ELTONI don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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 loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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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.
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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