Peter Ustinov Quotes

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

It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor.

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.

I'd rather be buried at sea than on the shore when I come to die. Will you stand by the plank, mates, so I can shake a friendly hand before I sink?

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.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us

Good-bye to you too ol' Rights of Man!

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.