Peter Ustinov Quotes - Page 4

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• The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Men, Parent

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

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• Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

  Peter Ustinov

  Flower, Epic, Artist

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• I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

  Peter Ustinov

  Daughter, Kings, Honesty

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• I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

  Peter Ustinov

  Dream, Facts, Pope

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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.

  Peter Ustinov

  Frustration, Back Alleys, Social

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

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• I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

  Peter Ustinov

  Italian, Blood, Veins

  "Milestones" by Joanna Bake, content.time.com. April 5, 2004.

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• Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.

  Peter Ustinov

  Best Love, Sex, Mean

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• Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

  Peter Ustinov

  Giving, Age, Credit

  1952 BBC radio broadcast, Feb.

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• Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

  Peter Ustinov

  Law, Soldier, World

  "The Loser: A Novel". Book by Peter Ustinov, 1960.

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• Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Been In Love, Has Beens

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• It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Weapons, Youth

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• A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

  Peter Ustinov

  Glimpse, Conscience

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

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• People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

  Peter Ustinov

  Attitude, Rights, People

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

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• I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

  Peter Ustinov

  Men, Devil, Fit

  "Fictional character: Edwin Fairfax Vere - Post Captain Royal Navy". "Billy Budd", www.imdb.com. September 20, 1962.

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• All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

  Peter Ustinov

  Boys, Men, Order

  "Romanoff and Juliet". Play by Peter Ustinov, 1956.

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• I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

  Peter Ustinov

  Fun, Hate, Men

  "The Loser: A Novel". Book by Peter Ustinov, 1960.

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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

  Doors, Today, Size

  Christian Science Monitor, 1962.

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• I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

  Peter Ustinov

  Party, Sometimes, Extremes

  Peter Ustinov (2002). “Romanoff and Juliet”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

  Peter Ustinov

  Men

  "Fictional character: Billy Budd - Merchant Seaman, Rights of Man". "Billy Budd", www.imdb.com. September 20, 1962.

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• I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

  Peter Ustinov

  Running, Thinking, Night

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• There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

  Peter Ustinov

  Experts, Littles, Facts

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• Please keep off the grass.

  Peter Ustinov

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

  Peter Ustinov

  Laughter

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 3

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• I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

  Peter Ustinov

  Russia, Switzerland, Hollywood

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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