Peter Ustinov

“Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.”

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

“Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.”

“The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.”

“Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.”

“Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.”

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

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

“The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.”

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

“Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.”

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

“I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.”

“I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.”

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