Quote

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

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
Look
False
Vacuous
Looks
Empty
Eyelashes
Thing
Usually
Masks
Head
Vacuums
Sort
Vacuum
Face
Artificial
Faces
Mask
Beautiful
Hide
Glamor

More quotes by 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
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
I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
Peter Ustinov
Image
American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.
Peter Ustinov
Image
When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
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
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
Peter Ustinov
Image
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
Peter Ustinov
Image
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov
Image
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov
Image
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
Peter Ustinov
Image
I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
Peter Ustinov
Image
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
Peter Ustinov
Image
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Peter Ustinov
Image
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
Peter Ustinov
Image
I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
Peter Ustinov
Image
The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
Peter Ustinov
Image
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
Peter Ustinov
Image
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.
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