Quotes by Peter Ustinov

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  • Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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  • Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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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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  • Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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  • To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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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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  • 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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  • It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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  • Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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  • Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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  • The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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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?
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  • I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
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  • Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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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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  • In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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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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  • 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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