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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
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Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
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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.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
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Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
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