Peter Ustinov quotes

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. (Peter Ustinov)
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Peter Ustinov
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
Peter Ustinov
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov
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
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. (Peter Ustinov)
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov
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.
Peter Ustinov
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.
Peter Ustinov
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Peter Ustinov
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Peter Ustinov
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
Peter Ustinov
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. (Peter Ustinov)
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.
Peter Ustinov
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Peter Ustinov
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov
I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
Peter Ustinov