World Quotes

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

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

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

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

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

[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.

Let us fight for a new world.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

My costume helps me to express my conception of the average man, of almost any man, of myself. The derby, too small, is a striving for dignity. The mustache is vanity. The tightly buttoned coat and the stick and his whole manner are a gesture toward gallantry and dash and 'front.' He is chasing folly, and he knows it. He is trying to meet the world bravely, to put up a bluff, and he knows that, too. He knows it so well that he can laugh at himself and pity himself a little.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Think about yourself at least once in your life. Otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is.