Peter Ustinov

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov - Dear Me (1977)
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.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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

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

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

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

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

- Peter Ustinov