Theres a fine line between participation and mockery. – Scott Adams
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. – Sir Richard Francis Burton
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an authors phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. – Guy Debord
Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. – Benjamin Disraeli
Perish those who said our good things before we did. – Donatus
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. – John Dryden
Nothing is new except arrangement. – Will Durant
Genius Borrows nobly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. – Anatole France
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. – Benjamin Franklin
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes. – Jovius
I dont think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. – B. B. King
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. – Malcolm Mclaren
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville
If you steal from one author, its plagiarism; if you steal from many, its research. – Wilson Mizner
Copy from one, its plagiarism; copy from two, its research. – Wilson Mizner
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. – George Moore
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
