“It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.”
Billy Budd
Billy Budd (1962)
Peter Ustinov: 59 citations0 J'aime
Peter Ustinov: Citations en anglais
“Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.”
As quoted in International Celebrity Register (1959) Cleveland Amory
Variante: People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
“Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.”
As quoted in The Independent (12 September 1993)
As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green
“Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.”
As quoted in The Observer (13 March 1955)
Billy Budd (1962)
Peter Ustinov Romanoff and Juliet
Act I
Romanoff and Juliet (1956)
As quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert Andrews, p. 742
“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.”
2000 Years of Disbelief : Famous People with the Courage to Doubt (1996) by James A. Haught
“I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.”
As quoted in TIME magazine obituary, (5 April 2004) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501040412-607849,00.html, p. 22, which noted that his great-grandfather had married the Princess of Ethiopia.
“Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.”
As quoted in Marriages and Families (1997) by Mary Ann Lamanna, p. 69
“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”
As quoted in Backstabbing for Beginners : My Crash Course in International Diplomacy (2008) by Michael Soussan, p. 316
“The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.”
As quoted in International Herald Tribune (12 March 1990)
“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”
As quoted in The Book of Quotes (1979) by Barbara Rowes, p. 164
As quoted in Words and Their Masters (1974) by Israel Shenker, p. 170
“Good-bye to you too ol' Rights of Man!”
Bill Budd, as he is impressed into service aboard the warship HMS Avenger
Billy Budd (1962)
Billy Budd (1962)
Peter Ustinov Romanoff and Juliet
Act I
Romanoff and Juliet (1956)
“To all those who by accident or design, have not been included in this book.”
Peter Ustinov livre Dear Me
Dedication page
Dear Me (1977)
