Peter Ustinov Quotes

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

My second play, “Blow Your Own Trumpet”, was well and truly lacerated by the press – but not the public. They weren’t there.

However people may carp or cavil about what has become known as the peremissive age, I believe that free communication, even if pushed to excess, is better than the murk of ignorance. Better a generation which has come to terms with its physical existence than one in which a lack of knowledge is veiled by […]

The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.

Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.

It is our doubts that unite us and our certainties that divide us.

Toronto is New York run by the Swiss.

Americans believe that freedom was their invention. They have been known to send peace-corps troops to Athens to teach the Greeks the meaning of democracy.

At times the United States are about as elegant as an elephant dancing on its toes.