Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
- Peter Ustinov
Courage, Insight, Based, Cases
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.
- Peter Ustinov
Every Day, How, Out, Militant
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
- Peter Ustinov
Always, Which, Seemed, Irrevocably
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.
- Peter Ustinov
Like, Been, Deny, Playwrights
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
Love, Tender, Which, Love Is
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
- Peter Ustinov
Tree, Reach, Bottom, Qualifications
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
- Peter Ustinov
Small, Office, Diplomats, Stammer
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
- Peter Ustinov
Enemies, British, Resist, French
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.
- Peter Ustinov
Social, Had, Lives, Premature
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
- Peter Ustinov
Awards, Normal, Refuse, Accepting
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
- Peter Ustinov
Work, Alive, Were, Vogue
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
- Peter Ustinov
Nature, Faith, Corruption, Restoring
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
- Peter Ustinov
Grow, Some, Generals, Wooden
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
- Peter Ustinov
Nothing, Head, Allowed, Diplomat
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov
Voice, Expert, Last, Blow
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
- Peter Ustinov
Freedom, Nothing, Through, Conformity
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
- Peter Ustinov
Wedding, Door, Next, Monica
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
- Peter Ustinov
Bed, Carried, Means, Conversation
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
- Peter Ustinov
Unique, Vain, Being, Being Unique
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
- Peter Ustinov
Mind, Lives, Our, Furnish
I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
- Peter Ustinov
Children, Bad, Which, Catholic
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
- Peter Ustinov
Door, Doing, Keyhole, Playwrights
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
- Peter Ustinov
Result, Daughters, King Lear, Lear
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov
Best, Optimist, Living, Foolish
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
- Peter Ustinov
Give, Critics, Which, Credit
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
- Peter Ustinov
Parenting, Cut, Which, Parents
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
- Peter Ustinov
Habit, Thought, Oppressive, Easy Way
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov
Humor, Comedy, Serious, Simply
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
- Peter Ustinov
Laughter, Died, Would, Snobbery
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
- Peter Ustinov
Seriously, Should, Take, Responsibilities
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
- Peter Ustinov
Reason, Commercial, Made, Bill
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.
- Peter Ustinov
Best, Believe, Like, Merely
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Best, Believe, Like, Merely
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
- Peter Ustinov
Mistakes, Thought, Careful, Perhaps
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
- Peter Ustinov
Truth, Ambition, Which, Truth Is
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
- Peter Ustinov
Truth, Ambition, Which, Truth Is
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
- Peter Ustinov
She, Vice, Amount, Virtue
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
- Peter Ustinov
Children, Sure, Form, Immortality
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
- Peter Ustinov
Love, Youth, Discovered, Weapon
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