Tailor: May I measure your inside leg, sir?
Cornelius: No.
Reporter at Hotel: Dr. Cornelius, tell me: ho do you find our women?
Cornelius: Very human.
Dr. Zira: We are peaceful creatures. We are happy to be here. May we be unchained?
Dr. Lewis Dixon: Can you read a map?
Cornelius: I'm an archaeologist. I can even draw one.
Armando: If it is man's destiny one day to be dominated, then oh please, God let him be dominated by such as you.
Cornelius: I do know this: One of the reasons for man's original downfall was your peculiar habit of murdering one another. Man destroys man. Apes do not destroy apes.
Dr. Zira: Because I loathe bananas.
Armando: You're asking me to risk imprisonment for the sake of two fugitive apes? The answer is: a thousand times, yes.
Cornelius: By the time the plague was contained, man was without pets. Of course, for man this was intolerable. I mean, he might kill his brother, but he could not kill his dog.
Dr. Zira: A marriage bed is made for two. But every damn morning, it's the woman who has to make it. We have heads as well as hands. I call upon men to let us use them.
Dr. Otto Hasslein: Zira, wine is an excellent restorative, I assure you, especially in cases of pregnancy.
