Plagiarism Quotes - Page 3

• Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

  Peter Wolf

  Thinking, Ideas, Compliment

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• Plagiarism is basic to all culture

  Pete Seeger

  Culture

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• 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

  Writing, Expression, Ideas

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.98, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Car, Gardening

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• Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Children, Ems, May

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.177

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• And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Nature, Book, Air

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.12

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• As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

  Henry Adams

  Real, Democracy, May

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.462, Harvard University Press

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• Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

  Charles Churchill

  Purses, Firsts, Gypsy

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.134, London : W. Pickering

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• For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

  John Milton

  Kind, Borrowing, Good Authors

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• Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

  Wendell Phillips

  Beauty, Writing, Matter

  Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Believe, Hollywood

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Soul, Substance, Utterance

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• Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Revolution

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

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• The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Hands, Ideas

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.831, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Would Be, Littles, Said

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• All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religion, Dull, Originality

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• The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

  T. D. Jakes

  Contentment, Popularity, Lows

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• The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Here And There, Thyme

  "Essays", Book I, Chapter XXV, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 598-600, 1922.

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• 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

  Writing, Speak, Depersonalization

  Ihab Habib Hassan (1980). “The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• Most authors steal their works, or buy.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Writing, Stealing

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.87

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• Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

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• Art is either revolution or plagiarism

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Revolution, Art Is

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• It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Age, Digital Age, Digital

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• Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Racism, Damage, Causes

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• Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

  John McPhee

  Research, Source

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