A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

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.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

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

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

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

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

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

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

Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
- Peter Ustinov Quote

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
- Peter Ustinov Quote