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Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (16 April 1921 ? 28 March 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian and Ethiopian ancestry

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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