Plagiarism Quotes

76 Plagiarism quotes by 65 unique authors

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. — Michel Houellebecq
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
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
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
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
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
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. — Michel de Montaigne
I recover my property wherever I find it. — Moliere
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
plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. — Ambrose Bierce
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge
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
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
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman
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
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
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
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do. — Robert Genn
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
Existing is plagiarism. — Emile M. Cioran
No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. — Gilbert Gottfried
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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

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