“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”

People’s affection hurts me but it’s a beautiful pain.

One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one’s fellow man.

What a sad business, being funny.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Let’s call them years of a friendly misalliance.

The world cannot be wrong if in this world there’s you.

My costume helps me to express my conception of the average man, of almost any man, of myself.

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.

I am an artist. I am interested in life.

I see no tragedy in the loneliness of old age, only the convenience of it.

Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Deep down we all have a sense of our own inadequacy about coping with life.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

The object of art is to intensify feeling, color or sound.

This is good for you. Death is a thing of beauty, and it needs to be executed in such a way that does it justice.

A lot of ugly people hide behind beautiful eyes. A lot of things are only lies.

We need to see inside our souls the massive beauty of this world.

Misery only ever lingers on those who choose not to see the beauty in anyone, other than themselves.

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

Women are beautiful. But some are made of hell.

The way that the water reflects off of her eyes, tells me a story of beautiful pain.

Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.