Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.

How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.

Making fun is serious business.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Humor is kindly. Wit is caustic.

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.

Men who think deeply say little in ordinary conversations.

Too much kindness and respect are given to the unseen and not enough to humanity. It seems that in our nature we loathe each other and bestow our respect and love on the abstract.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Faith is a precursor of all our ideas.

Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.

Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance.

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

I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty.

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.

The world cannot be wrong if in this world there's you.