About Author : Peter Alexander Baron Ustinov, was an Academy Award winning English actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian and Ethiopian ancestry.
Peter Ustinov Quotations and Sayings
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
If the world should blow itself up the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
By increasing the size of the keyhole today’s playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
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.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word which to give them credit they eventually find.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.
It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously.
In America through pressure of conformity there is freedom of choice but nothing to choose from.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven’t got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.