Peter Ustinov

"Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. "

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

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

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. "

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. "

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

"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 "

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. "

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

"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. "

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

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

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. "