"To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires……" — Peter Ustinov
"To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness."
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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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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
— Teresa of Avila
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
— Joseph Addison
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The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but…
— Conrad Black
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous…
— William S. Burroughs
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better…
— Alan Alda
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the…
— Barbara Bush
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Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
— Julia Cameron
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive…
— Nick Cave
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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without…
— James Allen
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
— Frank A. Clark
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I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a…
— Grover Cleveland
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