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Monkeys Quotes - Page 4

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew "Quick Quotations" (1936)

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W.H. Hudson”

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner (2011). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.129