Quote #16
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
More from Peter Ustinov
- Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- When people say to me 'Have a nice day', I reply 'Sorry, I've made other plans'.
- Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
- Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.
- By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
- I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.
- A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
- I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.