Charlie Chaplin Quotes - Page 4

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that's in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you if you only have courage and the will to use it.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

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

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

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

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

What a sad business is being funny!

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.