Top 183 Quotes & Sayings by Charlie Chaplin - Page 2

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

There is greatness in everyone.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

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.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

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

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Smile, though your heart is aching Smile, even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your pain and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow, You'll see the sun come shining through for you.

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

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.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

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

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.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 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. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.

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

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.

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

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".

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

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

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

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

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 can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

Life salutes u when u make others happy

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

Nothing is more important than the moving image; except for my cup of coffee in the morning.

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

Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!