Peter Ustinov Quotes

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• At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.
• Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
• Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
• Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
• Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway.…
• 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,…
• Please keep off the grass.
• If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
• The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us
• 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…
• Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
• To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
• Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique
• People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom
• I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
• Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them
• It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
• Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.
• Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

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