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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

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. — Stephen Neill

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer

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

Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do. — Cyc Jouzy

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious. — Robert Aris Willmott

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism — Walter Gropius

You may imitate, but never counterfeit. — Honore De Balzac

Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing. — Lisa Kleypas

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

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

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. — Steve Lacy

A good imitation is the most perfect originality — Voltaire

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin. — Elena

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

Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree. — Mitch Hedberg

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind. — Maria Montessori

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. — Ira Sachs

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect. — Rene Girard

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

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

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action — Aristotle.

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

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation. — A.S. Byatt

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ. — John Climacus

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
Punk, don't flatter me. — J-Ro

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

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

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners. — Alice Fulton

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are. — Rajneesh

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

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline. — Sun Ra

Most expensive originals have cheap imitations. — Elfriede Jelinek

All art is an imitation of nature. — Seneca The Elder

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. — Robert Henri

Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk — Amit Abraham

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation. — Simone Weil

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

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

There is only one faith, one love and one hope. The rest is imitation! — Isaias Doleo

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

I'm the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. — Jeaniene Frost

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? — Rita Mae Brown

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original. — Luise Rainer

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

This evil of taking our cue from others has become so deeply ingrained that even that most basic feeling, grief, degenerates into imitation. — Seneca.

Conformity is an imitation of grace. — Simone Weil

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

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

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer

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 the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't. — Em Bailey

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation. — Alan Cohen

Imitation is suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm into emulation, not imitation. — Chuck Inglish