163 Quotes by Peter Ustinov

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.