Best Imitation Proverbs

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended. — Publilius Syrus
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take… — George Orwell
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. — Lord Chesterfield
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce… — James Madison
Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier… — Arthur Miller
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life. — Erno Rubik
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling… — Northrop Frye
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by… — Vance Havner
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn… — Catherine McCormack
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more… — Irwin Edman
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That… — Gerhard Richter
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer. — Charles Olson
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. — Charles Olson
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that… — Augusto Roa Bastos
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to… — Katy B
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. — Michael Berryman
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. — Hayden Christensen
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did… — Steve Coogan
This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing. — Jimmy Buffett
If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in… — Edward T Welch
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. — William Winwood Reade

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