Малькольм де Шазаль цитаты

„Люди готовы верить всему, что услышали по секрету. Хочешь, чтобы тебе поверили, — говори шепотом.“

—  Малькольм де Шазаль

„Семья — это верховный суд, заседания которого не прекращаются даже ночью.“

—  Малькольм де Шазаль

„Женщины едят за разговорами, мужчины разговаривают за едой.“

—  Малькольм де Шазаль

„Можно найти дипломатов, способных лгать больше и лучше, чем некоторые женщины, но не найдется ни одного, способного лгать быстрее.“

—  Малькольм де Шазаль

„Осёл громче всех ревёт о своей чистой породе. Глупость громогласна.“

—  Малькольм де Шазаль

„Нигде гиря не чувствует себя такой сильной, как на весах.“

—  Малькольм де Шазаль

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

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

„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.“

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

„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.“

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

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

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

„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 opinion.“

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

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

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

„The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.“

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

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

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

„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.“

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

„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 mankind to a plane of such comfort and ease that nobody on either side of a frontier can even imagine the possibility of resorting to arms. Comfort creates wars and comfort may someday end them.“

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

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

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

„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 at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.“

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique

„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. A heap of fruit is a hive of colored bees.“

—  Malcolm de Chazal

Sens-plastique