Apes Quote by Ambrose Bierce

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of…

— Ambrose Bierce

“To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but…

— Thomas Ligotti

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

— Anonymous

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape.…

— Carl Linnaeus

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within…

— Andy Serkis

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

— Laurence Olivier

“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and…

— Cari Linneaus

We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must…

— Peter Leithart

“Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the…

— E.E. Cummings