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 h…

- Peter Ustinov

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

- Peter Ustinov

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

- Peter Ustinov

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

- Peter Ustinov

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

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

- Peter Ustinov

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

- Peter Ustinov

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

- Peter Ustinov

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

- Peter Ustinov