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

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

Other quotes by Charlie Chaplin

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. – Charlie Chaplin

Category:
Time
Author
Charlie Chaplin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Life
category

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
Life

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. – James Gibbons Huneker

Category:
Life

There are people who want to make mens lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Life

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. – Jeremy Taylor

Category:
Life

Random Quotes

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, its still a fantastic, amazing place. – Gwyneth Paltrow

Category:
amazing

Its the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing. – Ruth Handler

Category:
amazing

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination. – Christina Ricci

Category:
Imagination

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. – William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693

Category:
Marriage