163 Quotes by Peter Ustinov

Monica Seles: I’d hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that’s why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your – politeness.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can’t there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox – affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

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.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can’t resist being friends.

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

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it’s very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach.