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Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear.
— Aristotle.
In literature imitations do not imitate.
— Mark Twain
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
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
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
An echo has no voice of its own.
— Marty Rubin
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
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
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
— Mason Cooley
Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
— Ernst Moritz Arndt
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Imitation is suicide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man was ever great by imitation.
— Samuel Johnson
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.
— Ann Landers
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
— Judith Butler
He'll never do it again,' she swears, but he will because she'll let him. Now me? I've got no use for imitation love that packs a punch.
— Nikki Grimes
We wait. No sense spooking him. We let him come in nice and close while we do our famous imitation of a hole in the water,
— Tom Clancy
No one want to be an imitation of another
— Sunday Adelaja
No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.
— John Cassian
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
— John Stuart Mill
No one ever became great by imitation.
— Samuel Johnson
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
— Samuel Johnson
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
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
imitation really is the most sincere form of flattery. But
— Stephen King
I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.
— Simon De Pury
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
— Theodor Adorno
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
Define yourself, don't be an imitation.
— Debasish Mridha
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
— Edmund Burke
Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
— Amit Abraham
I'm into emulation, not imitation.
— Chuck Inglish
Imitation is criticism.
— William Blake
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation ...
— Desson Thomson
Him to sea. The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary
— Charles Dickens
Imitation cannot go above its model.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
— George Henry Lewes
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