Author Profile
Peter Ustinov
1921 – 2004 • English • Actor
41
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 41 quotesSex 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
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.— Peter Ustinov
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.— 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.— Peter Ustinov
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.— 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.— Peter Ustinov
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.— Peter Ustinov
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.— Peter Ustinov
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.— Peter Ustinov
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.— Peter Ustinov