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Peter Ustinov Quotes

English - Actor | April 16, 1921 - March 28, 2004

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

Seriously Take Our Responsibilities

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

Music Laughter Me World Sound Most

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

Future Small Office Room Where

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Freedom Pressure America Choose

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Good Courage Information Insight

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Best Believe Enough Living Optimist

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.

Social Social Sciences Whose Who Led

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Thought Said Virtue She Vice Her

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.

Sad Day Fool I Am World Every Day

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Truth Ambition Truth Is Beyond Us

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Search Credit Find Wrong Critics

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.

Men Night Eating Restaurant Dining

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