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| Det tråkiga med många "original" är att de är så föga originella. | Carl Hammarén (1922-1990) |
| Det världen kallar för originalitet är bara ett mindre vanligt sätt att smickra den på. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Det är otroligt lätt att vara originell i våra dagar. Det räcker med att man tar på sig en vanlig slips. | Flemming Madsen |
| En vits är den lägsta formen av humor - om du inte kommer på den först. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Folk tror att uppfinnare är vrickade original, men ingen frågar uppfinnarna vad de tycker om andra människor. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Ju klokare man är desto fler originella människor får man ögonen på. Vardagsmänniskan ser ingen olikhet mellan människorna. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Originalitet består inte i att säga något som ingen tidigare sagt, utan i att säga exakt det du själv tycker. | James Stephen |
| Originalitet har nu för tiden den som stjäl något först. | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| Originalitet är detsamma som att producera något ganska alldagligt. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) |
| Originalitet är för det mesta att efterapa någon som inte har efterapat så många. | Mikal Rode |
| Originalitet är för det mesta inget annat än ett ännu inte avslöjat plagiat. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Originalitet är ingenting annat än imitation med urskillning. | Voltaire |
| Originalitet är oupptäckta plagiat. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| Säg aldrig något originellt. Det är säkert fel. | Mark Rutherford (1831-) |
| Utan original kan det inte bli någon imitation. | Walter Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919) |
| Vad man hos författare kallar originalitet är ofta ingenting vidare än ett bekvämligare sätt att tänka och uttrycka sig. | Adolf Törneros (1794-1839) |
| Varför förnedra sig och bli en kopia när Gud skapade oss till original? | Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917) |
| Vi föds alla som original, och om vi lever tillräckligt länge dör vi som kopior. | Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917) |
| Vi föds som original men de flesta av oss dör som kopior. | Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917) |
| You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? | Bernadette Peters (1948-) |
| Utter originality is, of course, out of the question | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) |
| Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. | Jean Guitton |
| 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 (1891-1971) |
| Since there are only a few original people in the world, there is more uniformity than one might expect, in view of the large number who think they have something to say | Leo Stein |
| Originality is merely an illusion | M.C. Escher (1898-) |
| Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. | Thomas W. Higginson (1823-1911) |
| Originality is undetected plagiarism. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. | Herman Melville (1819-1891) |
| Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Insist upon yourself. Be original. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. | Leo Burnett (1891-1971) |
| 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 (1891-1971) |
| Utter originality is, of course, out of the question | Ezra Pound (1885-1972) |
| Originality is merely an illusion | M.C. Escher (1898-) |
| Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| 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. | Ansel Adams (1902-1984) |
| A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) |
| Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. | Thomas W. Higginson (1823-1911) |
| Since there are only a few original people in the world, there is more uniformity than one might expect, in view of the large number who think they have something to say | Leo Stein |
| Originality is the art of concealing your sources | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out? | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. | James Stephens (1882-1950) |
| All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| 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. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |