Peter Ustinov Quotes

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

Love, Act, Habit

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

Humor, Funny, Serious

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.
Peter Ustinov

Sad, Fool, After

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

Faith, Nature, Democracy

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

Freedom, Nothing, Through

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

Mistakes, Thought, Worst

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov

Good, Courage, Often

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

Work, Today, Working

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

Best, Friends, Belief

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

Today, Away, Door

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

Thought, Said, Her

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov

Laughter, Died, Snobbery

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
Peter Ustinov

Good, Friends, British

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

Age, Grow, Four

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

Bad, Children, Four

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

Ourselves, Seriously

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
Peter Ustinov

Unique, Vain, Conscious

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

Sex, Problems, Means

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

Made, Reason, American

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

Nothing, Down, Days

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.
Peter Ustinov

Life, Person, Understand

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

Give, Find, Wrong

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov

Best, Friends, Merely

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
Peter Ustinov

Find, Three, Almost

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: April 16, 1921

Died: March 28, 2004

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