Malcolm De ChazalChins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.363Humanity
Malcolm De ChazalThe idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.3710Thought
Malcolm De ChazalThe 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 w… ▶3710HumorSadness
Malcolm De ChazalWe sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.261HumorTime
Malcolm De ChazalMonkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.262Love
Malcolm De ChazalThe mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.277LoveThought
Malcolm De ChazalAnimals 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.246DeathThought
Malcolm De ChazalOur expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.183Death
Malcolm De ChazalThe flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.216Humor
Malcolm De ChazalIn mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.184Sadness
Malcolm De ChazalLaughter, 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 l… ▶229HumanityHumorLife
Malcolm De ChazalLaughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.174Humor
Malcolm De ChazalThe ring always believes that the finger lives for it.2110Sadness
Malcolm De ChazalWomen eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.143Time
Malcolm De ChazalThe ears are the last feature to age.1810Reading
Malcolm De ChazalThe family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.158Sadness
Malcolm De ChazalA 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.149Love
