Imitation Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imitation Individuality Self denial Wisdom
“if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.” — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“If you steal from one person, that's plagiarism… If you steal from a lot of people, that's research.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Forgive plagiarism, copy one person's thoughts, you are a plagiarist.... if it is by more than one, it's a council! (may have "borrowed this,… — Robert Armstrong Copy Share Image
“As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.” — Julie Rodelli Copy Share Image
“People will copy what you do and how you do it, but they can never copy WHY you are.” — Zach Mercurio Copy Share Image
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery until it involves plagiarism. Give credit where credit is due.” — Tia DeShay Copy Share Image
“I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Obviously I don't play the same way as Peter, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave me a… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
