great quotes from Peter Ustinov

[pippin]

some great lines from a great actor who has just died at age 82:

"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."

"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."

"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

"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."

"Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them."

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

"...the great thing about history is that it is adaptable."

"The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3578959.stm

[historian]

1. wonderful

shame we no longer have people like that - now we are stuck with vaccuous looking "superstars" who couldnt be wittyif it hit them in the face.

[hippiegranny]

2. excellent

these will make great sig lines for many du-ers!

[Rowdyboy]

3. "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth..."

Gotta love it. What a superb human.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Here's another, very appropriate for our times. . .

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and, war is terrorism of the rich".


He probably coined this phrase from his work with UNICEF,


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