Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape…

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back…

— Raymond Chandler

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

— J. Lee Thompson

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.…

— Douglas Adams

“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the…

— Orson Scott Card

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from…

— Anonymous

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of…

— Ezra Pound

I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.

— Charlie Brooker

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

— Richard Dawkins

Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's…

— Nouman Ali Khan

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest…

— Dian Fossey

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat…

— Terry Pratchett