Peter Ustinov Quotes

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

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

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There are no old men any more. Playboy and Penthouse have between them made an ideal of eternal adolescence, sunburnt and saunaed, with the grey dorianed out of it.

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uncontrolled photography is one of the blights of our time.

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The great thing about History is that it is adaptable.

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Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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To refuse awards. . . is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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

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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

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

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Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

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It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

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And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

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