Peter Ustinov World Quotations

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.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

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.

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.