Peter Ustinov Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
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.
At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.
If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come
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.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. ... It's the party at present in power.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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?
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.
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn!
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.