99 Quotes by Ben Elton

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

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

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

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

A society sufficiently sophisticated to produce the internal combustion engine has not had the sophistication to develop cheap and efficient public transport?'‘Yes, boss... it’s true. There’s hardly any buses, the trains are hopelessly underfunded, and hence the entire population is stuck in traffic

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.

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

Иногда лучше все оставить как есть. Время – не прялка. Время – пряжа.

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