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Ben Elton Quotes

Type:
Comedian Quotes
Category:
British Comedian Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 3, 1959
Nationality:
British
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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.
Ben Elton

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
Ben Elton

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.
Ben Elton

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!
Ben Elton

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 Elton

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
Ben Elton

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
Ben Elton

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.
Ben Elton

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.
Ben Elton

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.
Ben Elton


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