Charlie Chaplin Quotes

Why should poetry have to make sense?

You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

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

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

You’ll never find rainbows, If you’re looking down…

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

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

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.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

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

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.