Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.
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… - 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…
- Ben Elton
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators - Ben Elton
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators
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 ther… - Ben Elton
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 ther…
You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear. - Ben Elton
You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality. - Ben Elton
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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 … - 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 …
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy. - Ben Elton
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamp… - Ben Elton
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamp…
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