People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
BEN ELTONI try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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 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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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