Top 15 Peter Ustinov Quotes

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

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

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

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously.

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

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

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

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.