Apes Quotes

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other apes... and let's secure their future.

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

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 direction.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

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

It is absurd to ape our betters.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

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

I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.

A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

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 turn shapes our relationships.