Famous Peter Ustinov Quotations

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"A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally."
by Peter Ustinov
"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer."
by Peter Ustinov
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
by Peter Ustinov
"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died"
by Peter Ustinov
"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."
by Peter Ustinov
"Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them."
by Peter Ustinov
"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
by Peter Ustinov
"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."
by Peter Ustinov
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."
by Peter Ustinov
"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."
by Peter Ustinov
"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."
by Peter Ustinov
"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?"
by Peter Ustinov
"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"
by Peter Ustinov
"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."
by Peter Ustinov
"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world."
by Peter Ustinov
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
by Peter Ustinov
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
by Peter Ustinov
"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died."
by Peter Ustinov
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
by Peter Ustinov
"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."
by Peter Ustinov
"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
by Peter Ustinov
"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
by Peter Ustinov
"Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."
by Peter Ustinov
"The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops."
by Peter Ustinov
"Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth."
by Peter Ustinov
"There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners."
by Peter Ustinov
"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."
by Peter Ustinov
"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."
by Peter Ustinov
"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
by Peter Ustinov


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