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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

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