Peter Ustinov
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about themCollection: Women
At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.Collection: Death
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.Collection: Hope
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.Collection: Answers
What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?Collection: Learning
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?Collection: Peace
I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.Collection: Italian
Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.Collection: Best Love
Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.Collection: Law
That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.Collection: Names
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.Collection: Love
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.Collection: Dream
Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.Collection: Flower
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.Collection: Acting
I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.Collection: Men
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.Collection: Party
It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.Collection: Men
I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.Collection: Running
There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.Collection: Experts
Please keep off the grass.Collection: Life
A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.Collection: Glimpse
People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.Collection: Attitude
All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...Collection: Boys
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.Collection: Fun
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.Collection: Laughter
I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.Collection: Russia
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.Collection: Jesus
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.Collection: Stupid
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.Collection: Funny
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.Collection: Diplomats
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.Collection: Peace
American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.Collection: Drinking
Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.Collection: New York
And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.Collection: Army
I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.Collection: Education
The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.Collection: People
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.Collection: Love
When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomachCollection: Drink
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.Collection: Teach
Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.Collection: Beautiful
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.Collection: Work
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!Collection: Problem
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.Collection: Forgiveness
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.Collection: Peace
Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.Collection: Humanity
Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmaresCollection: Dream
The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.Collection: Stupid
The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.Collection: Great Things
As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.Collection: Thinking