Quotes from Malcolm de Chazal

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

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

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

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.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

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.

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

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

The ears are the last feature to age.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

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

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.