Explore Quotes by Peter Ustinov

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

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

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.

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

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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.

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

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.