Quotes About Imitation

True hope is not fully realized when we keep it for ourselves, but only when we imitate Jesus Christ and give it away. That's when hope becomes mature.

The children imitating the cormorants, Are more wonderful Than the real cormorants

To tell the truth, I was simply going to take on the external mannerisms of my acquaintance," admitted Paul frankly. "That was a great mistake," Tortsov replied. "At that point you went over to sheer imitation, which has nothing to do with creativeness

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

Eve's goal was to align herself with God at every possible level — to share his heart, imitate his ways, love what he loved, and join him in his work. It is the rarest of privileges, the highest of honors, the most daunting challenge imaginable. A simple list of attributes barely scratches the surface of all it means to bear God's image.

The stares that had haunted and followed the terrifying killer everywhere he turned had been nothing but a boy's imitation of a mother's reproachful look. No, Herman would never guess what had driven him out of town. We hadn't accused him of a man's murder. We'd accused him of a seagull's.

The light is shining in the darkness, but the darkness does not comprehend it. To a soul in such a condition, peace will come as soon as it turns to Our Lady and imitates her. In her the Word of God chose to be silent for the season measured by God. She, too, was silent; in her the light of the world shone in darkness. To-day, in many souls, Christ asks that He may grow secretly, that He may be the light shining in the darkness.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

This fool he promised me is like to be my own reflection in a pond.

And anyway, as they will say in the distant future, "Replication is the sincerest form of flattery.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.