“Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.”

“Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?”

“The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.”

“What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous”

“That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom as it does with humans, in direct relationship to the strength of the offspring. Some of us don’t need very much. Some of us need a lot.”

“That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.”