Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Ustinov
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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.
I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
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.
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
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.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.
I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.
What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
I can never forgive God for having invented the French
Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.
When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them
Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
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