39+ Ben Elton Quotes On Music, Education And Witty

Ben Elton is a British comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his work on the popular TV series Blackadder and The Young Ones. He has also written several best-selling novels, including Popcorn and Stark. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ben Elton on love, music, life.

Top 10 Ben Elton Quotes

1. I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
2. And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
3. 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.
4. The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
5. People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
6. You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
• Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
• I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
• I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
• My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
• I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
• 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.
• I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed
• You think I look like a teletubby?
• Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Ben Elton Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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. — Ben Elton

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators — Ben Elton

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

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund — Ben Elton

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

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been. — Ben Elton

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. — Ben Elton

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous. — Ben Elton

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. — Ben Elton

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. — Ben Elton

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy. — Ben Elton

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write. — Ben Elton

For 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. — Ben Elton

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. — Ben Elton

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. — 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

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. — Ben Elton

Life Lessons by Ben Elton

1. Ben Elton teaches us to be resilient and never give up, no matter how difficult life can be. He also encourages us to be open-minded and look at the world from different perspectives.
2. He encourages us to be kind and compassionate to others, and to always be willing to help those in need.
3. Finally, he reminds us to have a good sense of humour and to laugh at ourselves, as it can be the best medicine to get through tough times.