All Peter Ustinov Quotes
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.
Peter Ustinov
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Peter Ustinov
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Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
Peter Ustinov
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov
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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
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov
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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.
Peter Ustinov
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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.
Peter Ustinov
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Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
Peter Ustinov
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