Famous Quotes

Quotes by Peter Ustinov

• At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
• 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.
• Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
• Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
• 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.
• I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
• I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
• If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
• In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
• Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
• Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
• The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
• The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
• The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.