# Quote — Peter Ustinov, Dear Me

> Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

- Author: [Peter Ustinov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov.md)
- Book: [Dear Me](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov/dear-me.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov#Dear_Me_(1977)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov/dear-me/contrary-to-general

## More from this book

> Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov/dear-me/once-we-are.md)

> To all those who by accident or design, have not been included in this book.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov/dear-me/to-all-those.md)

> Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-ustinov/dear-me/life-was-cheap.md)