Peter Ustinov Quotes

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

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

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can'...

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must kn...

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash you...

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

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

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow ...

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

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it...

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

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