Author: Peter Ustinov

I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

I can never forgive God for having created the French.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice – that what she thought didn't amount to much.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

[Critics] search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

I feel I can talk with more authority, especially when I say, ‘I don’t know.’

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

I could not stand the strain of having to be right all the time.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

If Botticelli were alive today, he’d be working for Vogue.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Diplomat: A headwaiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. 

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

A dialogue is a good monologue spoiled by somebody else talking.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author