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Quotations of selected author

Peter Ustinov

1921-2004. German-American actor and writer.

1. "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

categories: Success and Fame

2. "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."

categories: Richness and Money

3. "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."

categories: Peace and War -:- Richness and Money

4. "Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various

5. "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."

categories: Family and Loneliness

6. "Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

7. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

categories: Forgiveness -:- Love

8. "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

categories: Various

9. "If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue."

categories: Art and Culture

10. "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."

categories: Optimism and Hope

11. "Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."

categories: Art and Culture

12. "Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."

categories: Politics and Diplomacy

13. "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

categories: Art and Culture

14. "Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."

categories: Family and Loneliness

15. "Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them."

categories: Various

16. "As for being a General, well at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

source: "Romanoff and Juliet"

categories: Youth and Age


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