Author of quotes: Peter Ustinov

Men are mortal, and it gives them a measure of quality. Whether Beethoven's immortal, he wrote thousands of symphonies, endlessly repetitive, and probably indistinguishable from one another even by its mediocrity.

We admire people for their strength, but we love them for their weakness.

People who know too many languages, seldom have anything to say about any of them.

Life, as noted by John F. Kennedy, an unfair referee, but remember: sometimes it is mistaken in your favor.

Life is too short, but it would be a nightmare, whether it is too long.

Life is a marathon that a sprint lay at the end.

Higher drama acting. To play well, of course, difficult. But to write a bad play is harder than bad a role to play.

Still the man was tormented by questions that had no answers; now, thanks to computers, we are under a barrage of answers that have no questions.

What is the difference between the ordinary and the people's democracy? In people's democracy people not free to say what I think, and so their opinion is left without attention; and in a normal democracy, such as in the West, people are free to say what I think, and so their opinion is left unattended.

What is the difference between Maggie Thatcher and Joan of Arc? Joan heard voices, and Maggie can hear only your own voice.

In my time there were things that could be done, and things that were impossible to do and there were ways to do what could not be done.

Hollywood is full of fifty men who take care of themselves carefully so that you can take them for a very healthy sixty.

The power of imagination is the finest substitute for lack of experience.

If the heroes time to think, heroism wouldn't.