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Peter Ustinov Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the english actor Peter Ustinov on topics like world, children, laughter

  • Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

    — Peter Ustinov on purpose
    12
  • Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

    — Peter Ustinov on love
    6
  • It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

    — Peter Ustinov on responsibility
    6
  • Peter Ustinov quote Laughter ... the most civilized music in the world.

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

    — Peter Ustinov
    8
  • Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

    — Peter Ustinov on humor
    5
  • Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

    — Peter Ustinov on bones
    3
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  • In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

    — Peter Ustinov on conformity
    3
  • The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

    — Peter Ustinov on ambition
    2
  • The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

    — Peter Ustinov on optimism
    2
  • Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

    — Peter Ustinov on parenting
    1
  • A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

    — Peter Ustinov on diplomacy
    1
  • To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

    — Peter Ustinov on recognition
    1
  • If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

    — Peter Ustinov on audible
    1
  • About Peter Ustinov

    Name Peter Ustinov
    Quotes 39 quotations
    Nationality English
    Profession Actor
    Birthday October 16
    About Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter.
    Top topics world, children, laughter, people, friends
  • 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.

    — Peter Ustinov on friends
    0
  • 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.

    — Peter Ustinov on confrontation
    0
  • 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 on age
    0
  • Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

    — Peter Ustinov on children
    0
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  • Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

    — Peter Ustinov on dreams
    0
  • People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

    — Peter Ustinov on bottom
    0
  • I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

    — Peter Ustinov on laughter
    0
  • The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

    — Peter Ustinov on american
    0
  • Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

    — Peter Ustinov on amount
    0
  • The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

    — Peter Ustinov on ambition
    0
  • The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

    — Peter Ustinov on ignorance
    0
  • I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

    — Peter Ustinov on diplomacy
    0
  • I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

    — Peter Ustinov on civilised
    0
  • In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

    — Peter Ustinov on work
    0
  • 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.

    — Peter Ustinov on asparagus
    0
  • There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

    — Peter Ustinov on prophecy
    0
  • Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

    — Peter Ustinov on ages
    0
  • I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

    — Peter Ustinov on friends
    0
  • Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

    — Peter Ustinov on laughter
    0
  • 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 on sex
    0
  • Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

    — Peter Ustinov on corruption
    0
  • Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

    — Peter Ustinov on conscious
    0
  • By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

    — Peter Ustinov on danger
    0
  • I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

    — Peter Ustinov on bad
    0
  • Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

    — Peter Ustinov on wedding
    0
  • 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 on attitude
    0
  • If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

    — Peter Ustinov on work
    0
  • Related Topics

    • purpose
    • destined
    • live
    • lives
    • prison
    • mind
    • duty
    • furnish
    • love
    • act
    • endless
    • forgiveness
    • tender
    • habit
    • responsibility
    • responsibilities
    • humor
    • comedy
    • simply
    • funny
    • bones
    • children
    • parents
    • teeth
    • cut
    • conformity
    • nonconformity
    • america
    • pressure
    • freedom
    • choice
    • choose
    • ambition
    • truth
    • optimism

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