Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
~ T.s. Eliot
If you copy my dreams, you automatically will copy my challenges too. My success will give you a crown. My challenges will make you frown.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them. God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
If you want to do something in your life,share everything but never your ideas.
~ Vikash Shrivastava
I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.
~ Bauvard
Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People who copy you will always be one step behind.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.
~ Thomas Mallon
People can copy anything; your mode of dressing, the way you talk, walk, dance, sing, cry, but they will find it very hard to imitate the way you donate money.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
~ Criss Jami
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. But Christian clergymen are well aware that if they were to attempt to purify Christianity and bring it back to the religion of Christ, the result would be to reform it out of existence. Christianity stands to-day completely explained. Every step in its development is laid bare and shown to be due to purely natural causes, and it is easy to see how much Christianity adopted from other and older religions.
~ Virchand Gandhi
You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
~ Stephen King
I'm not worried about plagiarism, I don't care if every person between here and Hell's creation put their name on my work as long as it ends up in the eyes of someone that found peace in the words
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.
~ Fennel Hudson
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal from many is research.
~ Steven Wright
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.
~ Rick Riordan
Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.
~ Megan Mccafferty
Isolation allows me to think more clearly, and I think out loud sometimes.After all, I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of plagiarism.
~ Charmaine J. Forde
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:Plagiarize!Plagiarize!Let no one else's work evade your eyes!Remember why the good Lord made your eyes!So don't shade your eyes,But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -Only be sure always to call it please 'resea
~ Tom Lehrer
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
~ Jimi Hendrix
The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.
~ John Fitch
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
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
~ Howard Dietz
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
~ Paul Gauguin
