Borrowers Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

— Samuel Johnson

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever”

— Rory Stewart

“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.”

— John C. Maxwell

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied…

— Théophile Gautier

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none

— Anonymous

“When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Every man has both a poetic obligation and a human obligation.”

— Hassan Blasim

When a man's talk is commonplace and his writings uncommon, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he borrows it,…

— Michel De Montaigne