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Peter Ustinov Quotes

«I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.»
«He shows great originality, which must be curbed at all cost»
«A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.»
«At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.»
Author: Peter Ustinov | Keywords: generals, swords, wooden
«Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.»
Author: Peter Ustinov | About: Relationships
«I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.»
«Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died»
Author: Peter Ustinov | Keywords: bereaved, snobbery
«Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
«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.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
«Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.»
Author: Peter Ustinov | About: Virtue

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