I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin

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

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
Charlie Chaplin

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.
Charlie Chaplin

The glamour of it all! New York! America!
Charlie Chaplin

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.
Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Charlie Chaplin

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Charlie Chaplin

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

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

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.
Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie Chaplin

We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin