35 Greatest Charlie Chaplin Quotes

35 Greatest Charlie Chaplin Quotes

1. “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

2. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.”

3. “We think too much and feel too little.”

4. “I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.”

5. “You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”

6. “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.”

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

8. “Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.”

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

10. “Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you are happy. But life salutes you when you make others happy.”

11. “A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.”

12. “I am for people. I can’t help it.”

13. “We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE.”

14. “Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.”

15. “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”

16. “Look up to the sky you will never find rainbows if you are looking down.”

17. “Mirror is my best friend, because when I cry it never laughs.”

18. “Imagination means nothing without doing.”

19. “Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”

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

21. “Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”

22. “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”

23. “You need power, only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done.”

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

25. “The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

26. “I have many problems in my life .But my lips don’t know that. They always smile.”

27. “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

28. “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”

29. “I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.”

30. “Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.”

31. “In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.”

32. “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.”

33. “To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.”

34. “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”