Vol. I; CCXVII
Lacon (1820)
“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 469
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
Interview with Susan Goodman, Modern Maturity (March/April 1998) http://www.paulrossen.com/paulinekael/modernmaturity.html.
Interviews
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
Attributed in Newsweek, 14 January 1980.
“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation.”
Quote of Gainsborough in a Letter to John Henderson, 27th June 1773
1770 - 1788
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
“Virgil imitated Homer, but imitated him as a rival, not as a disciple.”
Introduction, p. 27
Commentary, P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume II (1863)
