Quotes by Peter Ustinov

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

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

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

“Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them”

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

“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”

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

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”

“Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.”

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

“The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.”

“There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.”

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

“Books, I dont know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I cant for the life of me see why people have to write them.”

“uncontrolled photography is one of the blights of our time.”

“Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth”

“It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon”

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

“I have four children which is not bad considering Im not a Catholic.”