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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

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

Age

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

Peter Ustinov

Nothing

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

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

Peter Ustinov

Truth

Ambition

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

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

Peter Ustinov

Love

Youth

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Peter Ustinov

Truth

Ambition

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

Peter Ustinov

Being

Living

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

Peter Ustinov

American

Reason

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.