I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
Peter UstinovAnd here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.
Peter UstinovBecause they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
Peter UstinovAll the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...
Peter UstinovWhen I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
Peter UstinovTwo members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.
Peter Ustinov