Quotes About Plagiarism

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

He lik'd those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces, By plucking bon-mots from their places...

If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research

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.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

I steal from every movie ever made.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other.

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

Never steal jokes.

The one and only thing that every comic agrees on is that you do not steal jokes.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.