“ Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ”
- Howard Aiken- Copy
- 977
“ I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. ”
- Howard Dietz- Copy
- 977
“ About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
- 3K
“ Composers shouldn't think too much — it interferes with their plagiarism. ”
- Howard Dietz- Copy
- 624
“ The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. ”
- George Moore- Copy
- 3K
“ Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
- 3.7K
“ What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.9K
“ To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.2K
“ When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
- 1.5K
“ With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 686
“ I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. ”
- Howard Dietz- Copy
- 641
“ He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 752
“ About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 2.1K
“ So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. ”
- Peter Townsend- Copy
- 3.7K
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