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Quotes from Billy Budd — Peter Ustinov

1921–2004 England

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8 quotes

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

Billy Budd (1962)

You know Seymour, there are some men who cannot stand too much perfection. They see it as a disease, which must be stamped out at its first rash showing.

Billy Budd (1962)

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

Billy Budd (1962)

It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor.

Billy Budd (1962)

I'd rather be buried at sea than on the shore when I come to die. Will you stand by the plank, mates, so I can shake a friendly hand before I sink?

Billy Budd (1962)

Good-bye to you too ol' Rights of Man!

Billy Budd (1962)

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just — his turn!

Billy Budd (1962)

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)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Ustinov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.