393 Quotes About Originality

Originality is with its purity, and from that prospect, love purity is its one beloved.

Who's there?" cried a toothless voice.

Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle.

Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique.

a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form

The little children of my brain may be weaklyenough, and may be sadly in want of a helping hand to aid them in their first attempts at walking on the stageof this great world; but, at any rate, they are not borrowed children.

Everybody is convinced they have seen something others have not seen, and they delude themselves that they have thought things that other have it thought, but this is just because someone has taken the trouble to tell an ordinary story in an extraordinary way.

In writing 'here', I freely admit that many times I read it 'there' and placed it 'here'. But the ultimate joy comes when I first wrote it 'here', and then later, read it 'there'.

History can be created, but recreating it can ruin its originality.