Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

We think too much and feel too little.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I am for people. I can't help it.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.