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Ben Elton QUOTES

Ben Elton QUOTES

1 " This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence. "

― Ben Elton , Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book

2 " Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it. "

― Ben Elton , Blind Faith

3 " You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear. "

― Ben Elton , Blast from the Past

4 " People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves "

― Ben Elton , Meltdown

5 " The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. "

― Ben Elton , Blast from the Past

6 " Artists don't create society, they reflect it "

― Ben Elton , Popcorn

7 " They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join. "

― Ben Elton

8 " I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed "

― Ben Elton , Two Brothers

9 " To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past. "

― Ben Elton , Blast from the Past

10 " Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable "

― Ben Elton , Blind Faith

11 " With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them. "

― Ben Elton

12 " The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it. "

― Ben Elton , Blind Faith

13 " No!" Jimmy protested. "

― Ben Elton , Meltdown

14 " You think I look like a teletubby? "

― Ben Elton , Meltdown

15 " 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. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake. "

― Ben Elton , Stark

16 " 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; it had nothing whatsoever to do with a man's emotions. But if that was the case, why did it ache so? "

― Ben Elton , The First Casualty

17 " When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news. "

― Ben Elton , Blast from the Past

18 " And through all that dreadful darkness she had remembered him. He who loved her. He who still loved her. Who would always love her. "

― Ben Elton , Two Brothers

19 " We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance? One single move in the great game of history? What's your best shot? What would you consider to be the greatest mistake in world history and, more to the point, what single thing would you do to prevent it? "

― Ben Elton , Time and Time Again

20 " The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down. "

― Ben Elton , Blast from the Past