Malcolm De Chazal Quotes
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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.
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
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.
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.
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.
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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.
