Ape Quotes
164 quotes by 127 authors
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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
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
— Geraldine Brooks
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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
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
— Tracy Morgan
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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
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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
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The devil is God's ape!
— Martin Luther
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Ape Quotes
127 authors contributed a total of 164 Ape Quotes, led by these top contributors: