Quotes By Peter Ustinov

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

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

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

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

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

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.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

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.