56 ordspråk av Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
 A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. |
| A wedding ring is sort of a tourniquet worn on one's finger to stop circulation |
| At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. |
| 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 why people have to write them. |
| By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. |
| Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. |
| Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. |
| Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. |
| 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 |
| Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. |
| Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. |
| Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. |
| Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. |
| He shows great originality, which must be curbed at all cost |
| Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. |
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