Best 172 quotes in «imitation quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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, 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 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.

In imitation is a bit suicide.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.

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

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

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