Peter Ustinov Quotes

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

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

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

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

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

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

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

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

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

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