Famous quotes containing the words chaplin and/or received:
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
“I waited alone, in the company of orchids, roses and violets who—like people waiting beside you, but to whom you are unknown—maintained a silence which their individuality of living things rendered more imposing and in their chilly manner received the heat from an incandescent coal fire, preciously placed behind a crystal glass, in a white marble tub where it dropped, from time to time, its dangerous rubies.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)