163 Quotes by Peter Ustinov

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

I have four children which is not bad considering I’m not a Catholic.

The older I get, the more people listen to me – even though I say the same as always...

Basically I’m a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

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.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play’s run-as indeed, they often do.

It’s wrong to flog a man. It’s against his being a man.

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