Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Purpose
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Optimism
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Comedy, Humor
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best; they are merely the people who got there first.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Dedication, Friendship
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Work
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Responsibility
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Abundance, Dreams
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best; they are merely the people who got there first.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Friends and Friendship
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
—Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Feelings, Forgiveness, Love
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
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Laughter
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Intelligence
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.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Attitude
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
—Peter Ustinov
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Criticism
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
—Peter Ustinov
Topics: Parents, Parenting
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