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Famous Imitation Quotes
Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Mahatma Gandhi
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery. Tito Sotto
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. Peyton Manning
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton
Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity. Polly Bergen
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. Michael Berryman
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives. Walter Darby Bannard
Listening, not imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery. Joyce Brothers
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives. Walter Darby Bannard
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery it’s the sincerest form of learning. George Bernard Shaw
People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness. Do things in your own style; live your life according to your own light. And even if the same situation arises, be alert to find a new response. It is only a question of a little alertness, and once you have started enjoying and it is really a great joy to respond to old situations always in a new way, because that newness keeps you young, keeps you conscious, keeps you non mechanical, keeps you alive. Rajneesh
My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness there is no finish in nature. John Constable
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. Brian Molko
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. Quintilian
I believe that love not imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can’t. Marilyn Vos Savant
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. Friedrich Schiller
The worst acting is about imitation. Paul Guilfoyle
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. Theodor Adorno
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. Gertrude Stein
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle. John Dryden
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. Charles Olson
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. Aesop
Art should be life. It’s an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. John Lydon
Tis better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly. Elizabeth Gilbert
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. Johann Georg Zimmermann
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. Horace
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? Alfred de Vigny
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. T. S. Eliot
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. Jonathan Swift
I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing. Mae West
Unfortunately, what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. Bill Griffith
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. Brian Molko
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second hand. George Henry Lewes
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice. I’ll know that I’m on the way out when they stop doing their imitations. Vaughn Monroe
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton
Art only begins where imitation ends. Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine. Alan Turing
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Aristotle
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. Lord Chesterfield
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action. Aristotle
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. Mitch Hedberg
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness. Oscar Wilde
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain you will not be able to become yourself. One thing only is certain that you will not be yourself. And then follows the next thing you can never be a buddha, because you are you and a buddha is buddha. If you try to become a buddha, you cannot be a buddha; at the most you can be an imitation a plastic flower, not a real rose. Rajneesh
Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal. Aristotle
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. James Fenton
Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it. Oscar Wilde
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. Gertrude Stein
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. Aristotle
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the 1950s, contemporary costume jewelry styles shifted again. Trufacet
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. Edmund Burke
Costume jewelry are designs that use non precious materials as a cheaper alternative to fine jewelry. Trufacet
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow. Alan Turing
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful. Chanel
The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are. Rajneesh
Affordable costume jewelry is needed to appeal to the rapidly changing tastes associated with the fast fashion industry. Trufacet
I believe that love not imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can’t. Marilyn vos Savant
I hate imitation jewelry, dark lipstick, and most of all, a shrill voice. This has spoiled many a picture of feminine loveliness. Ray Milland
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Costume jewelry was also looked down upon as being only for women who couldn’t afford necklaces and bracelets made with real gemstones. Trufacet
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature. John Dryden
Coco Chanel is largely credited as being the primary influence behind the shift of fashionable tastes from delicate fine jewels to colorful, statement costume jewelry. Trufacet
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature. John Dryden
Stylistically, costume jewelry shifted from the Art Deco industrial influenced designs to include whimsical and feminine motifs like bows and floral boughs. Trufacet
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. Jean de La Fontaine
Until the early 20th century, costume jewelry was still designed to resemble heirloom jewelry and, although it was comparatively inexpensive to produce, it was still worn as a symbol of wealth and prestige. Trufacet
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original. Ann Landers
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. Israel Zangwill
Life doesn’t imitate art; it imitates bad television. Woody Allen
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. Israel Zangwill
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who through what seems to be have been discretion made it. Gore Vidal
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. John Updike
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer
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. Joshua Reynolds
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour. Walter J. Phillips
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female whenever she behaves as a human being, she is said to imitate the male. Simone de Beauvoir
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them. Cennino Cennini
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. Confucius
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality. Ben Shahn
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Niccolo Machiavelli
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. Rajneesh
I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with and exceed theirs. John Paul Jones
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. Pablo Picasso
