Famous quotes containing the words imitation and/or pearls:
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Those are pearls that were his eyes.
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”
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O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It’s so elegant
So intelligent ...”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)