Quotes of Plagiarism - somelinesforyou

“ The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ”

- Howard Aiken

“ I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. ”

- Howard Dietz

“ About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ”

- Paul Gauguin

“ If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Composers shouldn't think too much — it interferes with their plagiarism. ”

- Howard Dietz

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

- Marcel Proust

“ Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. ”

- George Moore

“ They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. ”

- Henry Burton

“ Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Self-plagiarism is style. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ”

- Mark Twain

“ To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ”

- Anatole France

“ What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ”

- Dean William R. Inge

“ With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. ”

- Howard Dietz

“ Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ”

- Paul Gauguin

“ The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. ”

- John Dryden

“ Genius borrows nobly. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ”

- Josh Billings

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

- B. B. King

“ Nothing is new except arrangement. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. ”

- Peter Townsend

“ The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. ”

- Lionel Trilling
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