Quotes By Peter Ustinov

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

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