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Author: Peter Ustinov

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Diplomat: A headwaiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Government Occupations Diplomat

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

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Communication Occupations Work Criticism Critics

If Botticelli were alive today, he’d be working for Vogue.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Art Entertainment

I can never forgive God for having created the French.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

People Places France

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Places Toronto

A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Government Diplomats Waiter

I feel I can talk with more authority, especially when I say, ‘I don’t know.’

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Age Old On growing old

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

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Success Awards

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

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

People Experts

A dialogue is a good monologue spoiled by somebody else talking.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Communication Conversation Speech

I could not stand the strain of having to be right all the time.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Government Politicians On why he did not become a politician

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

People Luciano Pavarotti Vanity

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Emotions Entertainment Comedy

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

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Characteristics Vices Virtues

I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Peter Ustinov

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Government Diplomats Stammering

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