“Imitation is flattery”

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”

“Goodman: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Kael: I hate it. It is very creepy being imitated.”

“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”

“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation.”

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

“Virgil imitated Homer, but imitated him as a rival, not as a disciple.”

“Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.”