Plagiarism Qoutation – Plagrism Qoutes
Here are some of selected plagiarism quotes (or plagrism qoutes, I know some of you spelled that incorrectly.. no worries).
The first one if from Benjamin Franklin:
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
And here’s the rest of the qoutes..
| When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. | Anatole France | 1844-1924, French Writer |
| Man is an idiot. He doesn’t know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. | Augusto Roa Bastos | 1917-, Paraguayan Novelist |
| I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. | B. B. King | 1925-, American Blues Singer, Guitarist |
| Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when ‘Tis safely got ‘Tis worth the winning. The worst of ‘t is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em. | Bryan Waller Proctor | |
| What is originality? Undetected PLAGIARISM. | Dean William R. Inge | 1860-1954, Dean of St Paul’s, London |
| Perish those who said our good things before we did. | Donatus | |
| Taking something from one man and making it worse is PLAGIARISM. | George Moore | 1852-1933, Irish Writer |
| 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 | 1931-, French Philosopher |
| Quotation | Author | Author description |
| Composers shouldn’t think too much — it interferes with their PLAGIARISM. | Howard Dietz | |
| He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. | John Dryden | 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic |
| About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgement. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes. | Jovius | |
| The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. | Malcolm Mclaren | |
| The human PLAGIARISM which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the PLAGIARISM of ourselves. | Marcel Proust | 1871-1922, French Novelist |
| What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Art is either PLAGIARISM or revolution. | Paul Gauguin | 1848-1903, French Artist |
| Quotation | Author | Author description |
| So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. | Peter Townsend | British Singer, Songwriter |
| Genius Borrows nobly. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. | Sir Richard Burton | 1821-1890, Explorer, Born in Torquay |
| The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. | Source Unknown | |
| ”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? | Stephen Bayley | 1951-, British Design Critic |
| Nothing is said which has not been said before. | Terence | BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies |
| Originality is nothing but judicious PLAGIARISM. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| Nothing is new except arrangement. | William J. Durant | 1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist |
| Copy from one, it’s PLAGIARISM; copy from two, it’s research. | Wilson Mizner | 1876-1933, American Author |
| Quotation | Author | Author description |
| If you steal from one author, it’s PLAGIARISM; if you steal from many, it’s research. | Wilson Mizner | 1876-1933, American Author |
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