Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Composer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Film Score Composer
Mime Artist
London
England
Charles Spencer Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
Always
Hats
Cane
Ties
Clutching
Desperate
Derby
Head
Predicament
Though
Predicaments
Matter
Landed
Even
Fixing
Much
Earnest
Straightening
More quotes by 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.
Charlie Chaplin
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.
Charlie Chaplin
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
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
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin
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 someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Charlie Chaplin
I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.
Charlie Chaplin
Simplicity is not a simple thing.
Charlie Chaplin
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Charlie Chaplin
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
Charlie Chaplin
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
Charlie Chaplin
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Charlie Chaplin
In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.
Charlie Chaplin
My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
Charlie Chaplin
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie Chaplin
Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice
Charlie Chaplin
We might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie Chaplin
Why not? After all, it belongs to him.
Charlie Chaplin
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Charlie Chaplin
