Originality Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

34 Originality Quotes
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“The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes
“All cases are unique and very similar to others.”
T. S. Eliot Quotes
“All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.”
Clement Greenberg Quotes
“When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.”
Eric Hoffer Quotes
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
Voltaire Quotes
“Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.”
Ezra Pound Quotes
“What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes