Charlie Chaplin
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.Collection: Falling In Love
The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.Collection: Mirrors
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.Collection: Believe
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.Collection: Kindness
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.Collection: Nature
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.Collection: Writing
Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.Collection: Life Is
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.Collection: Laughing
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.Collection: Discovery
My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.Collection: Character
What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!Collection: Stars
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.Collection: Dream
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.Collection: People
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you aloneCollection: People
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.Collection: Religious
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.Collection: Atheist
I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.Collection: Rain
Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!Collection: Stars
To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.Collection: Men
I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.Collection: Leaving
So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!Collection: Life
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.Collection: Beauty
One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.Collection: Hero
Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.Collection: Beautiful
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.Collection: People
Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.Collection: Positive Thinking
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.Collection: Moving
Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.Collection: Funny
I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true AmericansCollection: New York
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.Collection: Hate
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.Collection: Understood
I will not join any club who will take me as a member.Collection: Clubs
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that's in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you if you only have courage and the will to use it.Collection: Beautiful
Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.Collection: Hate
Simplicity of approach is always best.Collection: Simplicity
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.Collection: Funny
The heart and the mind, what an enigma.Collection: Heart
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.Collection: Hate
My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.Collection: Thinking
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.Collection: Kindness
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little doughCollection: Funny
As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.Collection: Hate
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.Collection: Sorry
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Drug
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.Collection: Wicked World
Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.Collection: Brunette