Peter Ustinov Quotes

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

We have fought two wars to end war. In 1976, the nations of this world set aside the same amount of money for its starving children as the lavished on armaments every two hours. Can any right-minded man afford to be a pessimist? That was a luxury for easier days.

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

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.

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.

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Bildung ist wichtig, vor allem wenn es gilt, Vorurteile abzubauen. Wenn man schon ein Gefangener seines eigenen Geistes ist, kann man wenigstens dafür sorgen, dass die Zelle anständig möbliert ist.

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

The lack of a personal core is at the base of such men, the inability to support doubt in any form, the fear of facing themselves...

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.