Malcolm De Chazal Quotes & Sayings

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. — Malcolm De Chazal

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. — Malcolm De Chazal

The ears are the last feature to age. — Malcolm De Chazal

The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. — Malcolm De Chazal

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion. — Malcolm De Chazal

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day. — Malcolm De Chazal

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable. — Malcolm De Chazal

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating. — Malcolm De Chazal

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind. — Malcolm De Chazal

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. — Malcolm De Chazal

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings. — Malcolm De Chazal

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. — Malcolm De Chazal

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. — Malcolm De Chazal

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. — Malcolm De Chazal

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.
When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. — Malcolm De Chazal

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other. — Malcolm De Chazal

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. — Malcolm De Chazal

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. — Malcolm De Chazal

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. — Malcolm De Chazal

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. — Malcolm De Chazal

A mirror has no heart but plenty of ideas. — Malcolm De Chazal

The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property. — Malcolm De Chazal

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. — Malcolm De Chazal

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company. — Malcolm De Chazal

The chicken "understands" the dog, the dog can interpret the dove's cooing, the insect can fathom the lowing of the cow, and no matter how faraway the eagle may be, the cow can tell where it is. All audible animal messages are indifferently understood by all animals even though each one is monolingual at most. Could there be any more remarkable lesson in and example of understanding others without loss of personality? Most impenetrable to the thoughts of others are those who have no personal language. Most intolerant people hail from the land of self-ignorance. — Malcolm De Chazal

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. — Malcolm De Chazal