Peter Ustinov Quotes

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• Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

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  Favour, Remember, Sometimes

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• Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

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  Faith, Atheist, People

  "2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt". Book by James A. Haught, 1996.

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• Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

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  Peace, Money, War

  "Achtung! Vorurteile". Book by Peter Ustinov, February 10, 2003.

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• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

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  Travel, Wine, Italian

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• If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

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  Mind, Prisoner, Wells

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

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  Sarcastic, Future, Sarcasm

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

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  Wise, Gentle, Portions

  "Still More of Who Said That?". Book by Renie Gee, 1981.

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• Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

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  Mistake, Intelligent, Gone

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• I can never forgive God for having invented the French

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  Forgiving, Never Forgive, I Can

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• It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

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  Love, Motivational, Family

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

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  Courage, Information, Cowardice

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• I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

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  Jesus, Believe, Two

  Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”

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• To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

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  Fun, Men, Rich

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

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  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them

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  Women, Men, Thinking

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• Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

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  Laughter, Philosophical, World

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 3

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• Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

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  Children, Cutting, Parenting

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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 frightened of birth.

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  Death, Age, Birth

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• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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  Funny, Laughter, Creativity

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• 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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  Love, Respect, Learning

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• The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

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  Hope, Wisdom, Believe

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

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  Learning, Process, Persons

  Peter Ustinov (2011). “Dear Me”, p.203, Random House

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• We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

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  Answers, Computer, Used

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• American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

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  Drinking, Beer, Democracy

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• Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

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  New York, Toronto, Kind

  Quoted by John Bentley Mays in the Globe and Mail, 1 Aug 1987.

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