“A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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“All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.”
Source: Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers
“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”
“Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.”
“Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.”
“Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.”
“Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it”
Source: Society Of The Spectacle
“In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.”
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”
Source: Assessments and Anticipations
“If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”
“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”
Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
“Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series
“Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.”
Source: The Collected Writings