Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

It is a matter of simple knowledge that the human likes to see the struggle between the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuccessful.

I always try to do the unexpected in a novel way.

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

I am an individual and a believer in liberty.

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

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

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.

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

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

Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance.

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

Faith is a precursor of all our ideas.

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

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

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.

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.

Men who think deeply say little in ordinary conversations.

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.

Humor is kindly. Wit is caustic.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.