ape quotes

The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

- BrianWilson Aldiss
  On space flight, in The Guardian. Prince  Consort  of  Queen  Victoria,  son  of  the  Duke  of  Saxe- Coburg-Gotha.  A  patron  of  the  arts  and  science,  he  planned the Great Exhibition of1851. He died of typhoid.

The question is this: is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Speech, Oxford, 25 Nov.

How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!

- Quintus Ennius Ennius
Quoted in Cicero De Divinatione, bk.50 (translated by H Rackham,1942).

It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

-William David Ormsby Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
  In the Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct.

   Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. 528

-Joseph R(aymond) McCarthy
  Birds of  America,'Epistle from Mother Carey's Chicken'.

And Jesus and a nameless ape Collide and share the selfsame shape That nocht terrestial can escape?

-Grieve
  A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, l.2476^8.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the old crow loves his fledglings, and the ape his cubs.

- SirThomas More
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to SirThomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Memories and Portraits, ch.4,'A College Magazine'