Top 40 Quotes by Peter Ustinov

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.

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

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.