Quote

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.

Peter Ustinov

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Writer
Camden
England
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
Firsts
Contrary
First
Merely
Friendship
Believe
General
Like
Sweet
People
Belief
Friends
Best
Necessarily

More quotes by Peter Ustinov

Image
What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
Peter Ustinov
Image
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov
Image
I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
Peter Ustinov
Image
Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.
Peter Ustinov
Image
If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.
Peter Ustinov
Image
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.
Peter Ustinov
Image
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
Peter Ustinov
Image
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
Peter Ustinov
Image
I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
Peter Ustinov
Image
I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
Peter Ustinov
Image
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.
Peter Ustinov
Image
Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.
Peter Ustinov
Image
Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
Peter Ustinov
Image
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.
Peter Ustinov
Image
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.
Peter Ustinov
Image
This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
Peter Ustinov
Image
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter Ustinov
Image
World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.
Peter Ustinov
Image
I can never forgive God for having invented the French
Peter Ustinov
Image
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov