Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE FRSAwas an English actor, writer, and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat, who in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 April 1921
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.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
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?
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself
Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hates and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
He shows great originality, which must be curbed at all cost