Top Originality Quotes
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes
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.
Leo Burnett
Douglas Wood 
George Bernard Shaw 
Josh Billings 
Thomas Carlyle 
Bootsy Collins 
Thomas Couture 
Arthur Koestler All Originality Quotes
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery 
74% of people like this quote
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
70% of people like this quote
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes
62% of people like this quote
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.
Leo Burnett
60% of people like this quote
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
57% of people like this quote
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.
C. S. Lewis
57% of people like this quote
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.
Thomas Couture
55% of people like this quote
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
Edward Carpenter
55% of people like this quote
Popular Originality Authors
George Bernard ShawMason Cooley VoltaireThomas CarlyleBlaise PascalW. Somerset MaughamJosh BillingsCharles BaudelaireJim CarreyJean CocteauC. S. LewisHerman MelvilleJohn Stuart MillLaurence J. PeterSteve Lacy
George Henry LewesAmy TanAnsel AdamsSimone de BeauvoirLeo BurnettLukas FossIsaac Bashevis SingerJulia RobertsFranklin P. JonesEdith WhartonDean IngeWilliam Ralph IngeDouglas WoodDavid NeelemanBurt Lancaster
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