Quotes About Plagiarist

#1. All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other.

Victor Hugo

#2. Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

Joni Mitchell

#3. Nonsense which it would be shameful for a reasonable being to write, speak or hear spoken can be sung or listened to by that same rational being with pleasure and even with a kind of intellectual conviction.

Aldous Huxley

#4. If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

Paul Gauguin

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

Benjamin West

#6. If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

Tony Scott

#8. Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Mark Twain

#9. 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

#10. I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.

Grete Waitz

#11. Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

Richard Louv

#12. Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Paul Gauguin

#13. I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

Sarah Kane

#14. Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#15. Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

A.E. Samaan

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

Karl Kraus

#17. 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

#18. Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#19. There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.

Pritam Chakraborty

#20. I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

Kerry Greenwood

#21. My parents think I'm better under pressure.

Tori Amos

#22. A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

Pablo Picasso

#23. If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

Amos Oz

#24. Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.

Robin Wasserman

#25. Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation

Benjamin Disraeli