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1. "I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine." ~ Peter Ustinov
2. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." ~ Peter Ustinov
3. "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." ~ Peter Ustinov
4. "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." ~ Peter Ustinov
5. "In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from." ~ Peter Ustinov
6. "Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy." ~ Peter Ustinov
7. "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
8. "I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world." ~ Peter Ustinov
9. "Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much." ~ Peter Ustinov
10. "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth." ~ Peter Ustinov
11. "If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue." ~ Peter Ustinov
12. "Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well." ~ Peter Ustinov
13. "Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died." ~ Peter Ustinov
14. "The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends." ~ Peter Ustinov
15. "At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it." ~ Peter Ustinov
16. "The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought." ~ Peter Ustinov
17. "I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic." ~ Peter Ustinov
18. "Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique." ~ Peter Ustinov
19. "A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally." ~ Peter Ustinov
20. "Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find." ~ Peter Ustinov
21. "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." ~ Peter Ustinov
22. "Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them." ~ Peter Ustinov
23. "There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts." ~ Peter Ustinov
24. "The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us" ~ Peter Ustinov
25. "Bildung ist wichtig, vor allem wenn es gilt, Vorurteile abzubauen. Wenn man schon ein Gefangener seines eigenen Geistes ist, kann man wenigstens dafür sorgen, dass die Zelle anständig möbliert ist." ~ Peter Ustinov

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I want. I need. I ache. I burn. Burn with me." Ellysetta to Rain in Lord of the Fading Lands."
Author: C.L. Wilson

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