Peter Ustinov Quotes

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

The rich are different from us.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

I've got so much money it's ridiculous.

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

Money doesn't buy class.

I have a lot of money.

I'm not a Beverly Hills dude.

I'm a multimillionaire.

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

I'm livin' high on the hog, and let me tell you, hogs make a terrible foundation.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

Rich folk don't try so hard