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Peter Ustinov
 English actor & author

| “ | Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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| “ | 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.
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| “ | Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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| “ | Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. | ” |
| “ | Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year? | ” |
| “ | 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 to be the most civilized music in the world.
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| “ | I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. | ” |
| “ | If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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