Top 95 Quotes About Plagiarism
#1. The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
Malcolm Gladwell
#2. Plagiarism, is like a fatal plague which has engulfed our generation and culminated impersonate clones. sad but true.. a caricature has replaced Mona Lisa.
Himmilicious
#3. Steal from one man, it's plagiarism. Steal from a thousand men, it's research.
Quentin Reynolds
#4. The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
Dorothy Parker
#6. After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.
Henry Peach Robinson
#8. Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#9. I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt
#11. I'm not worried about plagiarism, I don't care if every person between here and Hell's creation put their name on my work as long as it ends up in the eyes of someone that found peace in the words
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#12. No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
Gilbert Gottfried
#15. The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. I
Austin Kleon
#16. Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.
Heinrich Rohrer
#17. If you seal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. (Mizner)
Brian O'Hare
#18. The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#19. The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
Mary McCarthy
#20. I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.
Ben Lerner
#21. I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.
Will McDonough
#22. The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals ... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
Marcel Proust
#23. The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own ... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.
James Gleick
#24. Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
George A. Moore
#25. Plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
Ambrose Bierce
#26. 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
#27. The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
T.D. Jakes
#28. All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
Charles Spurgeon
#29. In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
Andrew Mason
#30. Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
#31. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Steven Wright
#32. One semester, I was busted for reverse plagiarism, which basically meant I was too lazy to research a paper for my psychology class so cited false references to support my own theories on deviant behavior.
Jennifer Coburn
#33. The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
Evan Osnos
#34. Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
Clint Eastwood
#36. 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 succumb.
Miroslav Volf
#37. Using a big word like 'plagiarism' ... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
Michel Houellebecq
#38. When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.
Jay Kay
#39. Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
Nora Roberts
#40. Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
Charles Stross
#41. To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.
Thomas Mallon
#43. All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidiy is original.
Hugh Kerr
#44. I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.
James Boswell
#45. Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
Robert K. Merton
#47. Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.
John McPhee
#48. Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it
Guy Debord
#49. If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
#50. All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.
Jacob Braude
#51. Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.
Fergus Kerr
#52. There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism
self-denial.
G.K. Chesterton
#54. 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.
Kathy Acker
#55. Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.
Walter Moers
#56. Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.
Red Skelton
#57. Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
Nancy Banks-Smith
#58. Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
Anthony Horowitz
#59. 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
#60. Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.
Steven Heller
#61. Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gaugin
#62. If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner
#63. Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz
#64. 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.
Ihab Hassan
#66. There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.
Hunter S. Thompson
#68. Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man's sleep.
Fennel Hudson
#69. You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Stephen King
#70. A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
Karl Kraus
#71. A little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what do you have? postmodern soup ...
John Geddes
#72. I recover my property wherever I find it.
Moliere
#75. The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.
John Fitch
#76. I read Wolfe's new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am going to write and say will you please stop writing books you bastard.
Jean Stafford
#77. All artists are protected by copyright ... and we should be the first to respect copyright.
Billy Cannon
#78. When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Criss Jami
#79. Vassals of an outdated ideology unrelated to the real world, they can, when questioned on this issue, only mumble neoliberal mantras that have delivered the world economic stagnation, rising inequality and global environmental crisis
Richard Flanagan
#80. People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after
Oliver Goldsmith
#82. A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling "Thief."
If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
Nor has the fool been enriched.
The thief flatters us by stealing.
We flatter him by complaining.
Ben Hecht
#83. Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
Pat Conroy
#84. 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.
Charles Kingsley
#85. Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
Michel De Montaigne
#87. I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.
Molly Ivins
#88. I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.
Bauvard
#90. Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
Robert Genn
#91. I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix
#92. Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
Benjamin West
#93. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
#94. 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.
Margaret Cavendish
#95. The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?
Anthony Marais
