Best 172 quotes in «imitation quotes» category

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Imitations only better the original.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

Imitation can be commercial suicide.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

In imitation is a bit suicide.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation