Ustinov, Peter (1921 – 2004), English actor & author
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven’t got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
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.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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?
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
