53 Quotes About Apes

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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

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

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

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 of those damn things.

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.