Plagiarism Quotes

• If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

  Wilson Mizner

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous (1944). Although this is usually credited to Mizner, the Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 1941, quotes Bob Oliver: "If you steal from one man, it's plagiarism. If you steal from several, it's research."

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• I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Fall, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Red Skelton

  Flattery, Imitation, Form

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• Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

  Voltaire

  Creativity, Originality

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• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Cynical, Immature

  In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16

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• It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Men, Ninety Nine

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7082, Delphi Classics

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

  Robert Genn

  Desire, Difficult

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• Plagiarism saves time.

  Stephen Hawking

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• Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Autobiography

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• 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

  People, Different, Would Be

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Skills, Drones, Honey

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Priorities, Coincidence, Honorable

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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

  Marcel Proust

  Individual, Difficult, Humans

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• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Stolen, Suspicious

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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• Self-plagiarism is style.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Inspiring, Self

  Alfred Hitchcock (2014). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• Genius Borrows nobly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.154

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• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Funny, Creativity, Originality

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Merit, Preservation

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.443

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• 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

  Creativity, Students, Originality

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  I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Mistake, Guitar

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• What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Book, Beer

  Notebook, 2 July 1867

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• I recover my property wherever I find it.

  Moliere

  Property

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• 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

  Literature, Stealing, Ifs

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.231

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• Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

  Henry Moore

  Clever, Artist, People

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