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Peter Ustinov [1921-2004] English

Rank: 101
Actor

Peter Ustinov CBE FRSA, born Peter Alexander von Ustinov, was an English actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter.

Age, Courage, Faith, Forgiveness, Freedom, Funny, Humor, Love, Religion, Sad, Truth, Wedding, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.	Funny, Humor	101
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.	Work	102
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.		103
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.		104
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.		105
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.	Age	106
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.		107
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.	Religion	108
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.		109
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.		110
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.	Forgiveness, Love	111
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.	Wedding	112
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.	Truth	113
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.		114
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.	Sad	115
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.		116
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.		117
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.	Faith	118
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.		119
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.		120
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.		121
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.		122
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.	Freedom	123
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.		124
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.		125
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.		126
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.	Courage	201
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.		202
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.		203
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.		204
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.		205
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.		206
I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.		207
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.		208
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.		209
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.		210
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.		211
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.		212
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.		213
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.		214
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.		215

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