And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that…

“Then she saw him stop and wipe his brow with his handkerchief. Once, twice. And then once again. But she did not see the…

— Wolfgang Borchert

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

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

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

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Charlie Brooker

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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

“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

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

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

— J. Lee Thompson

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

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

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