Ben Elton Quotes

"I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring."
- Ben Elton
(Related: Work, Criticism, Inspiring)

"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
(Related: Love, People, Strength, Heaven)

"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
(Related: Advice)

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
- Ben Elton
(Related: Sympathy, Feeling, Resentment, Victims)

"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
(Related: Change, Earth, Value)

"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
(Related: Act)

"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
(Related: Silly, Word)

"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
(Related: People, Conversation, Waiting)

"I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running."
- Ben Elton
(Related: Mistake, Risk, Running, Worth)