| Author |
Quotes |
| Carl Jung | Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Imitation is the sincerest flattery. |
| Dr Samuel Johnson | No man ever yet became great by imitation. |
| Francesco Guicciardini | One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. |
| Franceso Guicciardini | He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. |
| Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. |
| Salvador Dali | Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. |
| Wendell Phillips | To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship |
| Horatius Flaccus | I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. |
| Horatius Flaccus | He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. |
| Oscar Wilde | Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Imitation is suicide. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Insist on yourself, never imitate. |
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