I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTONFor 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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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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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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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 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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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