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.

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

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

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

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

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.

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.

Plagiarism saves time.

Existing is plagiarism.

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

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

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

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.

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

Genius Borrows nobly.