Peter Ustinov: Being

Peter Ustinov was English actor, writer, and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on being.

Peter Ustinov: 118 quotes69 likes

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”

As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green

“It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.”

Billy Budd
Billy Budd (1962)

“Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.”

As quoted in The Independent (12 September 1993)

“2nd Soldier: Do you mean that, as a General, you're not the tiniest bit ambitious for our military future?
General: I prefer our military past. The harm's done and there it is. As for being a General, well, 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 Romanoff and Juliet

Act I
Romanoff and Juliet (1956)

“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.”

The Loser : A Novel (1960)

“The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”

BBC obituary (2004)