Peter Ustinov Quotes - Page 2

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• In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

  Peter Ustinov

  Freedom, America, Choices

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  In 'Observer' 13 March 1955

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• I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

  Peter Ustinov

  Education, Years, Process

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• Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

  Peter Ustinov

  New York, Toronto, Kind

  Quoted by John Bentley Mays in the Globe and Mail, 1 Aug 1987.

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• The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

  Peter Ustinov

  Cynical, Religion, Atheism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Peace, Children, Years

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• Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

  Peter Ustinov

  Peace, War, Development

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• British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Humor, World

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

  Peter Ustinov

  Happiness, Music, Laughter

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 3

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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.

  Peter Ustinov

  Drinking, Beer, Democracy

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• Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Immortality, Form

  Peter Ustinov (1965). “Five plays”

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• Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

  Peter Ustinov

  Democracy, Way, Corruption

  "Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy". Book by Michael Soussan, November 4, 2008.

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• There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jesus, Machines, Television

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, (p. 742), 1993.

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• That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

  Peter Ustinov

  Names, Weakness, Human Nature

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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

  People, Tree, Bottom

  "International Celebrity Register: U.S. Edition". Book edited by Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell and Sydney Wolfe Cohen, 1959.

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• The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

  Peter Ustinov

  People, Listen To Me

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Knowledge, Men

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

  Peter Ustinov

  Diplomats, These Days, Diplomacy

  "Romanoff and Juliet".

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• World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

  Peter Ustinov

  World Government, Safety, Wish

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• And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

  Peter Ustinov

  Army, Lessons, Want

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

  Peter Ustinov

  Drink, Stomach, Fishes

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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

  Small Rooms, Office, Diplomats

  "Words and Their Masters". Book by Israel Shenker, 1974.

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• Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

  Peter Ustinov

  Dream, Growing, Criminal Mind

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• Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

  Peter Ustinov

  Beautiful, Eyelashes, Vacuums

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• I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

  Peter Ustinov

  Order, World, Fool

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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