Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

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

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

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

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.

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

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

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

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

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

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

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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

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

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

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.

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

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

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