chimpanzee quotes

Iguess I'mjust anoldmad scientist at bottom.Givemean underground laboratory, half a dozen atomsmashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

-Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)
  Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.

To watch him fumbling with our rich and delicate English language is like seeing a Se'  vres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
Of Sir Stephen Spender. Quoted by Eric Pace in Spender's obituary in the NewYorkTimes,18 Jul1995.

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