English - Actor | April 16, 1921 - March 28, 2004
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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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.
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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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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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
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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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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
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