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1921–2004 England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE FRSA (16 April 1921 – 18 March 2004), born Peter Alexander von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur.
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Good-bye to you too ol' Rights of Man!
Billy Budd (1962)
I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
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.
Dear Me (1977)
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your — politeness.
The Loser : A Novel (1960)
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.
Dear Me (1977)
Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.
The Loser : A Novel (1960)
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just — his turn!
Billy Budd (1962)
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Dear Me (1977)
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
The sea is calm you said. Peaceful. Calm above, but below a world of gliding monsters preying on their fellows. Murderers, all of them. Only the strongest teeth survive. And who's to tell me it's any different here on board, or yonder on dry land.
Billy Budd (1962)
Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
Dear Me (1977)
World government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest, in its only, sense, the patriotism of men who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.
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