Peter Ustinov Quotes
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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
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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.
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
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The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
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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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It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.