Plagiarism Quotes

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

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.

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Plagiarism saves time.

Existing is plagiarism.

You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

Genius Borrows nobly.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

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

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.