"Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection,……" — Peter Ustinov
"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. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship."
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77 Quotes by Peter Ustinov
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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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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
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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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