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Peter Ustinov
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.
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…
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
I have four children which is not bad considering I’m not a Catholic.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can’t resist being friends.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.
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…
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…
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
Monica Seles: I’d hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
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