Quotes About Plagiarism

It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.

I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Everybody steals my lines.

You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

When somebody says that a comic steals jokes, it's the ultimate betrayal of comedy.

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

If of a number of shreds of his sentences he can shape an oration, from all the world hee carries it awaie, although in truth it be no more than a fooles coat of many coulours. No inuention or matter haue they of theyr owne, but tacke vp a stile of his stale galimafries. The leaden headed Germanes first began this, and we Englishmen haue surfetted of their absurd imitation. I pittie Nizolius that had nothing to doe, but picke thrids ends out of an olde ouerworne garment.

Death threats from the ignorant, the criminal, the dishonest, and the ideologue, not the plagiarisms of the envious, is the sincerest form of flattery for an opinionated author.

I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.

Jobs quoted Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." He added, "And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Picasso Good authors copy, great artists steal-Picassco

Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

I invented a new word today: plagiarism.

Is a stolen copyright a copywrong?

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...

They use the term 'ripped from the headlines' for their stories because it sounds a lot better than 'plagiarized from the New York Times because we have no imagination.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.