Words matter. These are the best Peter Ustinov Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Monica Seles: I’d hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today’s playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
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.
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.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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.
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.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Monica Seles: I’d hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
