"Imitation is the sincerest flattery." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

"No man ever yet became great by imitation." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler

"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." - GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, Aphorisms

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal." - LIONEL TRILLING, in Esquire

"With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper." - THORSTEIN VEBLEN, The Theory of the Leisure Class

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - OSCAR WILDE, De Profundis