Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

"I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine."
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"I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine."
Peter Ustinov
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
Peter Ustinov
"Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night."
Peter Ustinov
"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."
Peter Ustinov
"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."
Peter Ustinov
"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
Peter Ustinov
"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."
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."
Peter Ustinov
"Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."
Peter Ustinov
"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue."
Peter Ustinov
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
Peter Ustinov
"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died."
Peter Ustinov
"A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally."
Peter Ustinov
"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed half the problems of bed are solved."
Peter Ustinov
"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
Peter Ustinov
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."
Peter Ustinov
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit."
Peter Ustinov
"By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
Peter Ustinov
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious"
Peter Ustinov
"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."
Peter Ustinov
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