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 Copy Share Image
All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
