Peter Ustinov Quotes
Academy Award-winning English-German actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur.
(1921 - 2004)
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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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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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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.
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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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.
[Humor]
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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
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I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me 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.
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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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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