Peter Ustinov quotes

Peter Ustinov was a British actor, writer, and filmmaker known for his wit and versatility. His career spanned stage, film, and television, earning him critical acclaim and several prestigious awards. He also gained recognition for his humanitarian work and contributions to the arts. Here are 79 of his quotes:

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. (Peter Ustinov)

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Peter Ustinov

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

Peter Ustinov

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

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 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.

Peter Ustinov

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

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

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

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. (Peter Ustinov)

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

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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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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

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

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Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. (Peter Ustinov)

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

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Peter Ustinov

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Occupation: British Actor
Born: April 16, 1921
Died: March 28, 2004
Quotes count: 79
Wikipedia: Peter Ustinov

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