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1 " 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. "
2 " Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it. "
― Oscar Wilde , The Decay Of Lying
3 " Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. "
― George Bernard Shaw
4 " Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin. "
5 " Yes. But I let you leave again, last year after you were crowned. And all those nights I brought you to Wonderland in your dreams, even though it pained me for you to abandon our dreamscapes and return to the mortal realm, I let you go each morning to live your reality there. It may not seem much when compared to your mortal’s gallantry. But for me—self-seeking, arrogant prig that I am—that is the sincerest form of sacrifice. Letting you go. Do you not see that? "
― A.G. Howard , Ensnared (Splintered, #3)
6 " Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. "
― Joyce Brothers
7 " Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. "
― Anna Godbersen , The Luxe (Luxe, #1)
