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.
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.
- 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
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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