Peter Ustinov

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

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

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

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

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

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

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

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.

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.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

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

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.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

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