Author: Ben Elliot

Quotes

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

- Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

- Ben Elliot

When I lived in New York, I discovered these Russian & Turkish Baths in East 10th Street. Great for a platza treatment - plus, you'll run into the world and his wife there.

When I lived in New York, I discovered these Russian & Turkish Baths in East 10th Street. Great for a platza treatment - plus, you'll run into the world and his wife there.

- Ben Elliot

Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

- Ben Elliot

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

- Ben Elliot

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

- Ben Elliot

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

- Ben Elliot

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

- Ben Elliot

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

- Ben Elliot

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