Peter Ustinov Famous Quotes
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
"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."
"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world."
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
"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."
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
"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."
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov Quotations
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.
William Jefferson Clinton
"It's not Jerusalem, It's not Baghdad. It's not Bolivia. It's Oklahoma."
V Z Lawton
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Lady Nancy Astor
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Booth Luce
"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route."
Malcolm Forbes
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andr Maurois
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."
Saint Augustine
Genius is perseverence in disguise.
Mike Newlin
It's never too late to be who you might have been.
George Eliot