Peter ustinov

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

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

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

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

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.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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.

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

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.