Quotes on Plagiarism

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

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

There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

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

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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

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.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.