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Peter Ustinov
English
Actor
Born:
Apr 16
,
1921
Died:
Mar 28
,
2004
Being
Believe
People
Which
World
You
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Funny
Comedy
Funny Way
Way
Simply
Being
Serious
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Love
Forgiveness
Love Is
Habit
Tender
Look
Becomes
Endless
Which
Act
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
Parenting
Parents
Teeth
Children
Which
Cut
Bones
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
Freedom
Pressure
Nothing
Through
America
Conformity
Choice
Choose
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Peter Ustinov
Music
Me
World
Laughter
Seemed
Civilised
Most
Always
Sound
Irrevocably
Which
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov
Faith
Nature
Democracy
Corruption
Our
Way
Restoring
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov
Sad
Day
Fool
Every Day
World
Pessimist
Every
Out
Must
Finds
Anew
Only
Know
How
Am
Optimist
Order
After
Place
Militant
Who
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
Peter Ustinov
Those
Alley
Had
Sterile
Sciences
Were
Led
Decided
Frustrations
Social
Confrontation
Them
Premature
Who
Social Sciences
Whose
Lives
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
Best
Believe
Living
Enough
Point
Foolish
Come
Optimist
Being
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
Peter Ustinov
Women
Men
Think
About
Them
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov
Thought
Virtue
She
Said
Vice
Much
Her
Amount
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Peter Ustinov
Religion
Thought
Way
Out
Easy
Easy Way
Habit
Oppressive
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Peter Ustinov
Age
Paper
Out
Some
Hats
Only
Never
Generals
Wooden
Us
Grow
Swords
Four
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
Peter Ustinov
Vain
Being
Being Unique
Unique
Conscious
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov
Truth
Truth Is
Ambition
Beyond
Which
Us
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov
Made
Pay
Only
Commercial
American
American Express
Bill
Reason
Express
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov
Future
Diplomats
Small
Attic
Foreign
Office
Taught
Where
Room
Stammer
Convinced
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Peter Ustinov
Sit
Nothing
Down
Diplomat
Allowed
Head
Days
Occasionally
Waiter
Who
I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
Peter Ustinov
Considering
Bad
Catholic
Children
Which
Four
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Peter Ustinov
Work
Today
Alive
Vogue
He
Were
Working
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov
Laughter
Snobbery
Would
Would-Be
Died
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter Ustinov
Love
Youth
Weapon
Discovered
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
Peter Ustinov
Good
Enemies
French
Friends
Being
Resist
British
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