Peter Ustinov Quotes
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?
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.
There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.
I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
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.
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
