Peter Ustinov Quotes
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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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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.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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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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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
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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.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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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.
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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.
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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
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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.
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Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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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 was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
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Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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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.
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.