Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Plagiarism.
Perish those who said our good things before we did.
Donatus
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
Malcolm Mclaren
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 expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
Guy Debord
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
John Dryden
Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
Benjamin Disraeli
They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.
Jovius
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling
Genius Borrows nobly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
George Moore
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
Miguel de Cervantes
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
Marcel Proust
Nothing is new except arrangement.
Will Durant
So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
Peter Townsend
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
Benjamin Franklin
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
