Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE FRSAwas an English actor, writer, and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat, who in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 April 1921
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
uncontrolled photography is one of the blights of our time.
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth
As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hates and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.