Quote #13
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
More from Peter Ustinov
- A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
- Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
- Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
- Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
- To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
- When people say to me 'Have a nice day', I reply 'Sorry, I've made other plans'.