Quotes About Imitation

Grandmother's English heritage meant that she had that Empire voice, that come-out-of-your-grass-huts-and-give-us-your-treasures-for-our-museums kind of voice. The woman could boom. It was seriously terrifying. Even years later when my father imitated her and she seemed part Margaret Thatcher and part horse Aeney and I were still frightened.

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

La técnica no cumple los viejos sueños del hombre, sino los remeda con sorna.

Earth will never be a paradise, but it could perhaps be prevented from coming closer and closer to being a vulgar imitation of hell.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Il n'est point de serpent, ni de monstre odieux, Qui, par l'art imité, ne puisse plaire aux yeux ; D'un pinceau délicat l'artifice agréable Du plus affreux objet fait un objet aimable. Ainsi, pour nous charmer, la Tragédie en pleurs D'Œdipe tout sanglant fit parler les douleurs, D'Oreste parricide exprima les alarmes, Et, pour nous divertir, nous arracha des larmes.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Here, precisely here, man imitates God: God granted Himself the work of creation, as the highest delight, and He demands that man, too, be a creator of prosperity and the harmonious course of things. And this they call dull!

In this holy russia of ours everything is infected by a mania for imitation, and everyone apes his superior

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

I'll have what she's having.

The precept, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," breeds in us most often the disposition to see one's neighbor merely as a poor imitation of oneself, and to hate him if he proves different.

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

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

The secret of a holy life is not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different.

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation.

Societies decline when the upper classes emulate the lower classes.

In looking back over the years I wouldn't go so far as to say I have never been brave, but most of the things for which I had been given credit for bravery were nothing but daredevil stunts. I was trying to build up my own ego, trying to imitate the bravery of people I had read about or had been told about in the years gone by.

Se bem que, cruel engano, nós nos afastemos com frequência da felicidade através dos meus que verdadeiramente nos deveriam dela aproximar. Daí os frequentes equívocos a seu respeito: que deve ser reivindicado como um dever, aprendido como uma matéria escolar, construído como uma casa: que se compra, qual moeda, que outros enfim possuem de fonte segura e que basta imitá-los para sermos inundados como eles pela mesma aura.