Peter Ustinov

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

— Peter Ustinov

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

— Peter Ustinov

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

— Peter Ustinov

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

— Peter Ustinov

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

— Peter Ustinov

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

— Peter Ustinov

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

— Peter Ustinov

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

— Peter Ustinov

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

— Peter Ustinov

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

— Peter Ustinov

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

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

— Peter Ustinov

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

— Peter Ustinov

To refuse awards … is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

— Peter Ustinov