Peter Ustinov

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

“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”

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

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

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

“People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.”

“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”

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

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”

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

“It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.”

“Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.”

“למרבה הצער, לשפע של חלומות יש מחיר והוא פוטנציאל גדול לסיוטים.”

“היהודים נתנו לנו את ישוע הנוצרי ואת קארל מרכס, ואין הם מאמינים באף אחד מהם.”

“אם האנגלים מהססים ללכת לראות קומדיה במוצאי שבת, זה מפני הפחד שיצחקו ביום ראשון במשרד.”

“אופטימיסט הוא מי שיודע באיזו נקודה העולם יכול להיות עצוב; פסימיסט הוא מי שמגלה זאת כל הימים.”

“ההומור הוא דרכי להיות רציני.”

“אם העולם יגיע למצב שהוא יפוצץ את עצמו, הקול האחרון שיישמע יהיה של מומחה האומר 'זה בלתי אפשרי'”

“The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.”

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