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
People who get through life dependent on other peoples possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. – 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
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. – 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
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it. – Ben Elton
