Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. Peter Ustinov Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done. Peter Ustinov Read Quote
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. Peter Ustinov Read Quote
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much. Peter Ustinov Read Quote
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. Peter Ustinov Read Quote
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. Peter Ustinov Read Quote
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. Peter Ustinov Read Quote
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. Peter Ustinov Read Quote
