Quotes by Peter Ustinov

If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.

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

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

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

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.

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

Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

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