"Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”

“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.”

“Every woman is wrong until she cries.”

“The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.”

“In imitation is a bit suicide.”

“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.”

“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”

“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”

“Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.”