Apes Quotes

I adore all the 'Planet of the Apes' films.

— Ruth Jones

“C'mon you apes, you wanna' live forever?”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Man is an ape with possibilities.

— Roy Chapman Andrews

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

— Justin Cronin

People are bloody ignorant apes.

— Samuel Beckett

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

— Quintus Ennius

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Sometimes I believe evolution is an insult to the apes.”

— Tonya Johnson

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

— Abraham Maslow

“Ape chase the “after”, over life, for apes have alcohol in their vein.”

— Abhijit Naskar

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

— Mark Twain

Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.

— David Milch

“Apes throw tantrum when they are insecure, pursuit of delusion soothes the vegetated.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Richard Dawkins

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

— Michael Crichton

“Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an “ape…

— Steven Pinker

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.

— Estella Warren

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb…

— Mortimer Collins

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it…

— Charles Lyell

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

— Simon Critchley

Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the…

— Adolf Hitler

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a…

— Bruce Catton

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive…

— Frans de Waal

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures…

— Ken Ham

As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and,…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory…

— Gore Vidal

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of…

— Dian Fossey

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large,…

— Charles Bukowski

Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at…

— Eugene Dubois

I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with…

— Richard Stallman

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls,…

— Ian Caldwell

I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God.…

— Vaslav Nijinsky

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace…

— Charles Darwin

“The shrieks were coming from two quite naked girls, who were pursued by a pair of apes snapping at their bottoms. [...]…

— Voltaire

Of course you're nervous, but we're really excited to be able to share what we're going to share. And it's cool, because…

— Matt Reeves

“The apes are, after all, behind the bars of their cages, and we are not. Eager for the experiments to begin, they…

— David Berlinski

“For instance, there is a tribe in the vicinity of Lake Rudolph that will eat no sheep or cattle, though its next…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy…

— Adolf Hitler

“Now, as light stayed longer every day, the bears and hyaenas and bony hippos, the lonely alopex and the apes, lay still-tensely,…

— Anonymous