Charlie Chaplin Quotes - Page 6

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

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.

You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

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.

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... 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 mens happiness.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.

Let us fight to free the world!

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

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

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.

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

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.