"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an……" — Ben Elton
"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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37 Quotes by Ben Elton
Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word…
- I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
- The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get…
- You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
- The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
- I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
- No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even…
- People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little…
- The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty…
- I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth…
- We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can…
- My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they…
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- Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. — Guy Debord