Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first read more

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.