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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
English actor & author [more author details]

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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
Peter Ustinov
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Peter Ustinov
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
Peter Ustinov
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
Peter Ustinov
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
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People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Peter Ustinov
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
Peter Ustinov
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
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