G.R. Elton Quotes

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

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

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

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 there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

Fame attracts lunatics.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

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.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

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

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

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

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.

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

I've got a great collection of photography.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.