Famous quotes containing the words charlie chaplin, charlie, chaplin and/or national:
“Charlie Chaplin’s genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.”
—Lita Grey Chaplin (b. 1908)
“Don’t pay any attention to Ah Ling. He has a mania for quoting Confucius. And Charlie Chan.”
—Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Mrs. Houghland, Murder by Television, reassuring her friends after the houseboy has pointed out a sign of ill omen (1935)
“I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)