Peter Ustinov Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”