Charlie Chaplin:

I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty, or who finds freedom in it … I found poverty neither attractive nor edifying. It taught me nothing but a distortion of values, an over-rating of the virtues and graces of the rich and the so-called better classes.

— Charlie Chaplin Modern

Silent film legend

Context

From 'My Autobiography'.

Date / Period

1964

Source

https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/211-Quotes

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