American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.
All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the h… - Peter Ustinov
All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the h…
- Peter Ustinov
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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
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.
If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished. - Peter Ustinov
If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. - Peter Ustinov
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich. - Peter Ustinov
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
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
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness. - Peter Ustinov
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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