Peter Ustinov Quotes - Page 3

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• Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Book, Reading, Writing

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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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• Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jobs, Two, Done

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

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• The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

  Peter Ustinov

  Great Things, Adaptable

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

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• The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

  Peter Ustinov

  Truth, Ambition, Atheism

  International Herald Tribune, March 12, 1990.

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• Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Fall, Justice

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• Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

  Peter Ustinov

  Music, Unique, Pavarotti

  The Independent, September 12, 1993.

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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.

  Peter Ustinov

  Birthday, Peace, War

  Romanoff and Juliet act 1 (1956)

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• Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

  Peter Ustinov

  Life, Education, Mind

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

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• In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

  Peter Ustinov

  Work, Done, Way

  Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”

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• Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

  Peter Ustinov

  Peace, Children, Justice

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

  Peter Ustinov

  Forgiveness, Determination, Work

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• If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

  Peter Ustinov

  Work, Alive, Today

  In Observer 21 Oct. 1962

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• The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

  Peter Ustinov

  Enemy, British, Good Enemy

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

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• The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

  Peter Ustinov

  Money, Pay, Bills

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• I had started by 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.

  Peter Ustinov

  Bird, Alternatives, Unusual

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

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• Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

  Peter Ustinov

  Thinking, Serious Person, Sides

  "Ustinov's comic touch". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

  Peter Ustinov

  Problem, Flogging, Culprit

  "Fictional character: The Dansker - Sailmaker". "Billy Budd", www.imdb.com. September 20, 1962.

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• This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Country, Humor

  Peter Ustinov (2002). “Romanoff and Juliet”, p.22, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

  Peter Ustinov

  Humanity, Age, Battle

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

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• Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

  Peter Ustinov

  Sarcasm, Vices, Belief

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

  Peter Ustinov

  Acting, Television, Captains

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• Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

  Peter Ustinov

  Wedding, Hate, Night

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• As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

  Peter Ustinov

  Thinking, People, Grows

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

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