Plagiarism Quotes
76 Plagiarism quotes by 65 unique authors
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Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
— Michel Houellebecq
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Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old.…
— Megan McCafferty
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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now…
— Bryan Procter
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After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original,…
— Henry Peach Robinson
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As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single…
— Henry Adams
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The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
— Moliere
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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.
— Henry Moore
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Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
— William Ralph Inge
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If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people…
— Paul Gauguin
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Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes, /…
— Tom Lehrer
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Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
— Charlotte Saunders Cushman
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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or…
— LeRoy Neiman
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Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea…
— Peter Wolf
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
— Robert Genn
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In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards…
— Miroslav Volf
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Existing is plagiarism.
— Emile M. Cioran
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No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
— Gilbert Gottfried
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his…
— Guy Debord
Who Wrote These Plagiarism Quotes
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