Inimitable Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. — Christian Dior
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the… — Robert Boyle
The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks. — Johann Joachim Winckelmann
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. — Robert Bresson
Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be… — Adam Clarke
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable… — Alfred Kazin
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own… — Richard P. Feynman
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best… — John Dryden
I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the… — Mark Twain
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable — Bertrand Russell
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles DarwinCharles Darwin
Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile genius, full of… — Voltaire

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