Charlie Chaplin Quotes

• In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

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

• What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!

• Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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

• Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish.

• To live in order to reason or reason in order to live; there is the question.

• Imagination means nothing without doing.

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

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

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

• To be out on a night like this you must be an optimist

• Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

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

• I have yet to find a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty

• A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.

• The public never knows what it wants, only what it doesn't want.

• One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.

• Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

• Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

• I am but one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a higher plane than any politician.

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

• The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting

• Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

• I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon. (Mr Verdoux)

• Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance.

• Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth.

• They walked out on me. They haven't done that since I was a beginner. The cycle's complete.

• Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

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

• The roses you lifted to your lips ... lucky roses!