Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mohandas Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.
Roy Horn

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
James Fenton

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
Barbara Hepworth

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein

No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Alfred de Vigny

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

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.
Curtis Sittenfeld

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
Erno Rubik