Peter Ustinov

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

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

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

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

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Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

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

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I can never forgive God for creating the French.

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

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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay my American Express bill.

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

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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

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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

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Generals detest generals on their own side far more than they dislike the enemy.

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

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

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Laughter … the most civilized music in the world.

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