Peter Ustinov
Actor
1921-04-16
Quotes by Peter Ustinov
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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
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I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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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.
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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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I had started imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
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A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.
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At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.
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American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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