Best 172 quotes in «imitation quotes» category

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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, 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.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

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.

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.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

In imitation is a bit suicide.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

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.

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