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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
— Peter Ustinov
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.
— Peter Ustinov
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
— Peter Ustinov
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
— Peter Ustinov
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
— Peter Ustinov
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
— Peter Ustinov
Please keep off the grass.
— Peter Ustinov
I can never forgive God for having invented the French
— Peter Ustinov
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
— Peter Ustinov
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.— Peter Ustinov
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
— Peter Ustinov
A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.
— Peter Ustinov
The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
— Peter Ustinov
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
— Peter Ustinov
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious
— Peter Ustinov
Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
— Peter Ustinov
I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
— Peter Ustinov
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
— Peter Ustinov
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.
— 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.
— Peter Ustinov
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
— Peter Ustinov
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.
— Peter Ustinov
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
— Peter Ustinov
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
— Peter Ustinov
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
— Peter Ustinov
I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God ... or the Devil.
— Peter Ustinov
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
— Peter Ustinov
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
— Peter Ustinov
The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always ...
— Peter Ustinov
This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
— Peter Ustinov
Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.
— Peter Ustinov
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
— Peter Ustinov
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us
— Peter Ustinov
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.
— Peter Ustinov
If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
— Peter Ustinov
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
— Peter Ustinov
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come
— Peter Ustinov
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
— 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.
— Peter Ustinov
I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
— Peter Ustinov
unfortuneately a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential of nightmares
— Peter Ustinov
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
— Peter Ustinov
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
— Peter Ustinov
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. ... It's the party at present in power.
— Peter Ustinov
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
— 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.
— Peter Ustinov
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
— Peter Ustinov
Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares
— Peter Ustinov
To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
— 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.
— 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?
— Peter Ustinov
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
— Peter Ustinov
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn!
— Peter Ustinov
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
— Peter Ustinov
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
— Peter Ustinov
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.
— Peter Ustinov
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
— Peter Ustinov
As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.
— Peter Ustinov
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
— Peter Ustinov
It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.
— Peter Ustinov