Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004) Some of his great sayings.

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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov



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

Peter Ustinov



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

Peter Ustinov



Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov



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

Peter Ustinov



Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Peter Ustinov



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

Peter Ustinov



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

Peter Ustinov



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

Peter Ustinov



If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Peter Ustinov

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