Original Quotes

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

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

We can say nothing but what hath been said.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

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

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I’m sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.