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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with P >> Quotes By Peter Ustinov |
| Quote #1: | "Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died." |
| Quote #2: | "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." |
| Quote #3: | "The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." |
| Quote #4: | "I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world." |
| Quote #5: | "I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." |
| Quote #6: | "By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door." |
| Quote #7: | "Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much." |
| Quote #8: | "Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of." |
| Quote #9: | "Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them." |
| Quote #10: | "Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year" |
| Quote #11: | "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." |
| Quote #12: | "Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find." |
| Quote #13: | "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." |
| Quote #14: | "It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." |
| Quote #15: | "In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from." |
| Quote #16: | "People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom." |
| Quote #17: | "Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first." |
| Quote #18: | "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill." |
| Quote #19: | "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal." |
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