Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov English actor & author (1921 - 2004)


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

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

Peter Ustinov - Dear Me (1977)
- 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 -
- Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.