Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

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

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

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

I love rain because tears can not be seen in rain.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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

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

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

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

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

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.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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

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

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

Why should poetry have to make sense?

We think too much and feel too little.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

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

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

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

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.

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