“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you’re on the red carpet, it’s like, ‘Here’s Tom Hardy.’ I don’t want to be me. That’s why I play other people.

I am the only thing in my life I can control. I am immitable, I am an original.

Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.

I don’t think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it’s annoying.