Malcolm De Chazal Quotes

#1. A mirror has no heart but plenty of ideas.

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

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

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

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#5. The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property.

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

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

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

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

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#12. In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

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

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#18. The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

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#19. The ears are the last feature to age.

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

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

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#22. The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

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#23. The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.

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

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