We are what we are; we gain nothing by copying others.
Imitation Quotes
Don’t expect anything original from an echo.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the sound.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
No man ever yet became great by imitation. Whatever hopes for the veneration of mankind must have invention in the design or the execution; either the effect must itself be new, or the means by which it is produced. Either truths hitherto unknown must be discovered, or those which are already known enforced by stronger […]
We love in others what we lack ourselves, And would be everything but what we are.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
In literature imitations do not imitate.
