Quotes from Peter Ustinov

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.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

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

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

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

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

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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