Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.
Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
I never really stop and think about should I put my hat on this way or that, not thinking that little JoJo down the street would be copying that. I'm more conscious about it now and tell the kids that it's not about the shoes or what kind of shoes... it's all about the dance.
Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
Knowledge is a mimic creation.
Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Man is an imitative creature.
I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
