Peter Ustinov Quotes

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

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

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

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.