Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Imitation

Quotes about: Imitation

• Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Flattery, Imitation

• Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Flattery, Imitation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114

• When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wicked, Faults

• Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reality, Views, Drawing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.140

• Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Grace, Imitation, Facility

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.261

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