Plagiarism Quotes

"I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism."
-Howard Dietz

"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."
-Guy Debord

"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
-Wilson Mizner

"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
-W. R. Inge

"We want to inform students what cheating is, what plagiarism is, and what happens if you do it."
-Kyle Martin

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
-Paul Gauguin

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
-Wilson Mizner

"PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence."
-Ambrose Bierce

"''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?"
-Stephen Bayley

"The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism."
-Dorothy Parker

"I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism."
-Fran Cohen

"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research."
-John Burke

"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."
-Dean Inge

"Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home."
-Zelda Fitzgerald

"Self-plagiarism is style."
-Alfred Hitchcock