Author: Ben Elliot

Quotes

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

I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.

I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.

- Ben Elliot

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

- 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

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

For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.

For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.

- 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

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

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