Quotes by 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.”

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

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

“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”

“The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.”

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

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

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

“Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.”

“I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.”

“No matter how much leaves are fixed face to face they always look at each other aslant, whereas all fruits end up head-on however carelessly jumbled. A bunch of flowers is a house of colored cards....”

“The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.”

“The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer a...”

“Nothing is more certain than that war promotes science and increases comforts. Utopia may mean no more wars, but universal peace and plenty will never reign until at least one more war raises manki...”

“We see a friend’s eye as one and indivisible. A stranger’s eye we take in part by part: the white, the iris, and the pupil.”

“Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.”

“A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.”

“The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.”

“Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.”

“Like a hawk about to devour its prey, the wings of public opinion hover above the head of the judge. All the Court’s decisions are disguised and indirect forms of pleading at the bar of public opin...”