Apes Quote by Osbert Sitwell

“Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.”

— Saul Bellow

“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard”

— Alfred Döblin

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

— Tennessee Williams

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about…

— Vance Havner

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

— Tennessee Williams

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.

— Ben Jonson

“Evolution of apes to human begins with one person disposing of their flag in a museum.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

— Robert E. Howard

“These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged animals who have never known freedom; but it…

— Colin Wilson

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

— Steven Pinker

We are the monkeys of desire trapped in a cage, Not having freedom to loose what one has and what one does not have

— Melchor Lim

At the zoo, all the animals have a decent composure, except for the monkeys. You get the feeling man is very close to them.

— Hussein Nishah