Homage Quotes

Parody is homage gone sour.

— Brendan Gill

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

— Oscar Wilde

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think you have to show homage to creators.

— Brendan Fraser

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

— Charles Simmons

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

— Thomas Jefferson

I cant be bothered with paying homage to forefathers.

— Pusha T

Ever since 'The Goldbergs' began, one of my dreams was to write a homage to 'Highlander.'

— Adam F. Goldberg

Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

— Jenni Rivera

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

— Albert Pike

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse...

— William Shakespeare

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

— Ann Wilson

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

— William Shakespeare

When you retire for the night offer grateful homage to God for being with you all day long.

— Sathya Sai Baba

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his…

— Alain de Botton

“Not to mention Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless, who are all under-producing and their milk is sour and they won’t go anywhere…

— Charles stross

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a…

— Martin Short

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full...…

— Nick Simmons

Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

— Diablo Cody

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member…

— James Madison

In an homage, you always want to subvert it and have fresh new takes. You don't want the audience to say, 'Oh…

— Misha Green

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto…

— Radhanath Swami

I have to always, always pay homage to a woman I never met but she touched me like she touched so many…

— Demetria McKinney

It just seemed fitting to have our own lounge with our own dance review that paid homage to where The Pussycat Dolls…

— Nicole Scherzinger

I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really…

— Jonathan Tucker

Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages…

— Bill Watterson

When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated…

— Eric Ripert

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,…

— Thomas Jefferson

In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some…

— Vladimir Sorokin

The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with Robert at the top and lots of us…

— Janet Holmes a Court

The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take…

— Arthur Miller

The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they…

— Peter Julian Eymard

My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential…

— George Washington

In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for…

— Asger Jorn

Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age.…

— Dan Simmons

One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and…

— Abraham Kuyper

If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,…

— Tertullian