Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Ben Elton (English Comedian, Writer)

Ben Elton (b.1959,) fully Benjamin Charles Elton, is a British comedian, playwright, writer, librettist, actor, and director. He is recognized as the scriptwriter for the television sitcoms The Young Ones and Blackadder and as a stand-up comedian and actor.

Born in Catford, South London, Elton made his first professional appearance as a stand-up comedian at the Comic Strip Club in 1981. At the vanguard of the alternative comedy movement, he co-wrote such popular television comedies as the anarchic The Young Ones (1982, 1984,) Happy Families (1985,) Blackadder II (1986,) Blackadder the Third (1987,) Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) and The Thin Blue Line (1995–96.)

A frequent fixture on the cabaret circuit and television, Elton has also written stage plays, bestselling novels, a musical, and a film. His television shows include Ben Elton—The Man from Auntie (1990; 1994.) From 2000, he began working on stage musicals. He created The Beautiful Game (2000) and the sequel Love Never Dies (2010) with English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and We Will Rock You (2003) with the rock band Queen.

Elton has also written five plays, including, most recently, The Upstart Crow, which opened in February 2020.

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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
—Ben Elton

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
Topics: Conversation

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

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
Topics: Love

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
Topics: World

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