"Man is an animal with primary instincts of……" — Charlie Chaplin
"Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior."
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161 Quotes by Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin has 161 quotes on this site.
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We think too much and feel too little.
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A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness,…
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far…
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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
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More Afterwards Quotes
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
— Teresa of Avila
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine…
— Honore de Balzac
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won…
— Amy Chua
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.…
— Winston Churchill
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on…
— Thomas Aquinas
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