Peter Ustinov

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

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

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hates and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

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

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

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

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

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.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

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

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

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

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

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

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

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

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

uncontrolled photography is one of the blights of our time.

Monica Seles I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

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.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.