A Quote by Peter Ustinov

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world. — © Peter Ustinov
Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.
In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.
All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular.
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free.
In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.
France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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