"I'm convinced there's a small room in the……" — Peter Ustinov
"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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77 Quotes by Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov has 77 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought…
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Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go…
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World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its…
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Please keep off the grass.
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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
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The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us
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There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact…
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought…
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Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
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I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail…
— Ann Hood
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past.…
— Ernest Lawrence
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While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all…
— Robbie Robertson
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and…
— Laurence Olivier
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Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and…
— Barry Nelson
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At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She…
— Erica Jong
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and…
— Michel Gondry
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A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some…
— Paul Muni
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary,…
— Thomas Harris
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