Quotes by Plagiarism plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. Ambrose Bierce plagiarism priorities coincidence In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition. Andrew Mason plagiarism competition art I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. B. B. King plagiarism stealing thinking Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. Benjamin Disraeli plagiarism preservation merit Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature? Benjamin West palette plagiarism painter All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright. Billy Cannon plagiarism artist firsts 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 plagiarism stealing literature No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. Charles Kingsley plagiarism thinker simple Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. Charlotte Saunders Cushman plagiarism would-be littles Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. Clint Eastwood plagiarism hollywood Existing is plagiarism. Emile M. Cioran plagiarism Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it Guy Debord plagiarism progress All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons! Henry Ward Beecher plagiarism sermons dull The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak. Ihab Hassan plagiarism speak writing Borrowed garments never keep one warm. James Russell Lowell borrowed plagiarism garments Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research. John McPhee plagiarism source research For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè. John Milton borrowing plagiarism kind A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. Karl Kraus plagiarism hundred made You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism. Kathy Acker plagiarism identity interesting Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers. Margaret Cavendish plagiarism fruit brain 123»