Caesar: Ah, if only my mother and father, whom I was too young to remember... If only they'd lived, perhaps they would have taught me if it was right to kill evil so that good shall prevail.
MacDonald: But you know, Caesar, history shows.
Caesar: Oh no, no, no. That is human history, not ape history. Ape, never kills ape.
Quotes from Roddy McDowall movies and TV shows
Virgil: Teacher only reverted to type under provocation. He... he spoke like a slavemaster in the old days of our servitude when we were conditioned to mechanical obedience. He, uh, he uttered a negative, uh, imperative.
Caesar: Could you put that into words which even Caesar could understand?
Virgil: Uh, he said, "No, Aldo, no!"
Caesar: Now, fight like apes.
Caesar: Can one murder be avenged by another?
Virgil: Perhaps only the future will tell.
Dr. Elizabeth 'Liz' Bartlett: But I don't have a parachute.
Mr. Charlie Olympus: Then you have a problem.
Mr. Stallwood: But I don't have a parachute either.
Mr. Charlie Olympus: Then you have the same problem.
Tailor: May I measure your inside leg, sir?
Cornelius: No.
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.
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.
Reporter at Hotel: Dr. Cornelius, tell me: ho do you find our women?
Cornelius: Very human.
Dr. Lewis Dixon: Can you read a map?
Cornelius: I'm an archaeologist. I can even draw one.
Peter Vincent: First we need some holy water, and some communion wafers.
Alex: Communion wafers? The stuff you get from the church? Am I going to hell for this?
Charley Brewster: It was a performance.
Peter Vincent: She cast no reflection.