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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Written by Peter Ustinov
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Written by Peter Ustinov
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Written by Peter Ustinov
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Written by Peter Ustinov
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
Written by Peter Ustinov
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Written by Peter Ustinov
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Written by Peter Ustinov
I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
Written by Peter Ustinov
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Written by Peter Ustinov
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Written by Peter Ustinov
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Written by Peter Ustinov
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Written by Peter Ustinov
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
Written by Peter Ustinov
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Written by Peter Ustinov
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Written by Peter Ustinov
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Written by Peter Ustinov
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
Written by Peter Ustinov
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
Written by Peter Ustinov
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
Written by Peter Ustinov
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Written by Peter Ustinov

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