Ape Quotes

164 quotes by 127 authors

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in… — Diane Ackerman
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited… — Brandon Boyd
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered… — Helena Bonham Carter
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such… — William Shakespeare
Conformity is the ape of harmony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I… — Carl Linnaeus
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right… — William Ralph Inge
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of… — Adolf Hitler
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. — Tracy Morgan
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one… — Helena Bonham Carter
You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better… — David Fincher
The devil is God's ape! — Martin Luther
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking we… — Paul Watson
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of… — Paul Watson
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly

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