Wicked World Quotes

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  We think too much and feel too little.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Thinking, Littles

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?

  Elvis Costello

  Pain, Light, Hatred

  Song: Peace, Love And Understanding

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• Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Life, People, Leave Me Alone

  "Fictional character: Hannah". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Philosophical, Needs

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• I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Nature, Rain, Cry

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Clever, Men, Brain

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.195

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• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Courage, Failure, Humility

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Names, Grace

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• A day without laughter is a day wasted.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Good Morning, Happiness

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• I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Peace, Men, Conflict

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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• The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mirrors, Laughing, My Best Friend

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• Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Wonderful, Just Leave Me Alone

  "Fictional character: Hannah". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  World, Ruthlessness, Ruthless

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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• Imagination means nothing without doing.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Mean, Imagination

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• Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

  Amos Lee

  Powerful, Wicked, World

  Song: Soul Suckers, Album: Amos Lee, 2005

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• You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

  Charlie Chaplin

  Uplifting, Cheer Up, Optimistic

  "Swing High Little Girl". Opening song written and sung by Charlie Chaplin for the re-release of "The Circus" (1928), 1969.

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• Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Wicked, World

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• To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  My Autobiography ch. 10 (1964)

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• I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.

  Semir Zeki

  Evil, Optimism, Upset

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Desire, Want, Life Is

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• 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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humor, Politician, Clown

  The Observer, June 17, 1960.

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• A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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