Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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• We think too much and feel too little.
• A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
• To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
• The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
• Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
• I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
• 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.
• 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.
• Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
• To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
• What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
• 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 do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by…
• Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
• I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
• 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…
• Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

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