Imitation Quotes
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
— Marcus Aurelius
Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear.
— Aristotle.
For the beauty that adorns the earth is not imitation
— Judy Azar LeBlanc
In literature imitations do not imitate.
— Mark Twain
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
— Lord Chesterfield
Poetry is the imitation of the most important aspect of human existence life and that's what make's it so beautiful and necessary.
— Nicolas Saperstein
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
— Elbert Hubbard
Be very careful that you are not giving yourself to a pale imitation of life with Christ - life about Christ, or life generally near to Christ.
— Shauna Niequist
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
— Richard Lovelace
Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.
— Robert Aris Willmott
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
— Honore De Balzac
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.
— William Zinsser
And it's not the real Elvis you need to resemble, it's the imitation Elvises. Not hard to look like one of them.
— Margaret Atwood
Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is a more wonderful thing than art.''They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde
Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.
— Joan Magretta
All art is but imitation of nature.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
— Bill Griffith
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
— Maria Montessori
If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.
— Ronald Knox
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
— Bradford Cox
The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
— Warren G. Harding
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
— Herman Melville
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
He seemed so cold. Like a shadow caused by heat and light falling on someone honorable and true, casting this black imitation behind.
— Brandon Sanderson
Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
— Ernst Moritz Arndt
I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.
— John Climacus
Imitations only better the original.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
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.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
— Thomas Paine
I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.
— Jane Yolen
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
— John Dryden
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Most expensive originals have cheap imitations.
— Elfriede Jelinek
All art is an imitation of nature.
— Seneca The Elder
Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
— Amit Abraham
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
— George Henry Lewes
Imitation cannot go above its model.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Him to sea. The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary
— Charles Dickens
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation ...
— Desson Thomson
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Imitation is criticism.
— William Blake
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
— Edmund Burke
Define yourself, don't be an imitation.
— Debasish Mridha
Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
— Tracy Kidder
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
— Theodor Adorno
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.
— Simon De Pury
imitation really is the most sincere form of flattery. But
— Stephen King
Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.
— Carine Roitfeld
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
— Rita Mae Brown
Or might the soul clone itself,create a perfect imitation
of something yet to be
defined? In this way,
can a reflection be altered? — Ellen Hopkins
Imitation limits imaginations
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Conformity is an imitation of grace.
— Simone Weil
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
— Christie Watson
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation
— Thomas Gainsborough
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
— Mason Cooley
True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation.
— Brandon Sanderson
Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
— Suzy Kassem
Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.' She
— Iris Murdoch
Imitation is suicide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm into emulation, not imitation.
— Chuck Inglish