Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Originality is really important.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.