Top 53 Plagiarism Quotes

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Plagiarism is when you take someone else’s words and claim it as your own. With that in mind, check out the top 53 plagiarism quotes.

#53 – 50. Plagiarism Quotes

53. There’s a fine line between participation and mockery. – Scott Adams

52. 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

51. About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings

50. Self-plagiarism is style. – Alfred Hitchcock

#49 – 40. Plagiarism Quotes

49. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein

48. Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. – Robert K. Merton

47. Intentionally using the quotes of others without author attribution is plagiarism and contributes to illiteracy. – Rain Bojangles

46. The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment. – T. D. Jakes

45. 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

44. Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. – Benjamin Disraeli

43. There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. – Benjamin Franklin

42. Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep. – Fennel Hudson

41. Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. – Lady Marguerite Blessington

40. It’s not plagiarism in the digital age – it’s repurposing. – Kenneth Goldsmith

#39 – 30. Plagiarism Quotes

39. Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

38. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. – Anatole France

37. Art is either plagiarism or revolution. – Paul Gauguin

36. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. – Steven Wright

35. Genius Borrows nobly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

34. 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

33. Originality is undetected plagiarism. – William Ralph Inge

32. Everything is not tradition, it’s plagiarism. – Eugenio d’Ors

31. So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. – Peter Townsend

30. All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech. – Jacob Braude

#29 – 20. Plagiarism Quotes

29. Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

28. Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism. – Voltaire

27. They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

26. Perish those who said our good things before we did. – Donatus

25. He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole. – Stephen Gosson

24. Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research. – Wilson Mizner

23. 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

22. Nothing is said which has not been said before. – Terence

21. What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

20. I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. – B. B. King

#19 – 10. Plagiarism Quotes

19. 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

18. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville

17. 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. – Walter Colton

16. All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. – Charles Spurgeon

15. Plagiarism is basic to all culture. – Pete Seeger

14. Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

13. Nothing is new except arrangement. – Will Durant

12. Plagiarism brings on bad karma and may lead to reincarnation as a bad piece of art or, worse, a bad politician. – Jacques Vesery

11. If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. – Wilson Mizner

10. Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. – Benjamin Disraeli

#9 – 1. Plagiarism Quotes

9. If you plagiarize others’ techniques, you steel their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero. – Wu Guan-Zhong

8. Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. – Malcolm Mclaren

7. The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust

6. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. – John Dryden

5. They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes. – Jovius

4. Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. – George Moore

3. To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic – Pablo Picasso

2. If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research. – Wilson Mizner

1. What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. – Mark Twain

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