Doe Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Originals cost more than imitations.”

— Suzy Kassem

Imitations only better the original.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as…

— Socrates

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have…

— Brooks Atkinson

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

— Anonymous

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations;…

— Joshua Reynolds

"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the…

— Clive James

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that…

— Anonymous

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation,…

— Lydia M. Child