Quotes About Plagiarism

If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say 'Hey, who else has said them,' I can come up with the list in five minutes.

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

For all I know, entire scientific reputations may have been built on the work of students and colleagues! I don't know what can be done to combat this dishonesty.

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

Blomkvist had heard this line before. He had even spoken to an old lady who claimed that it was actually she who had written the Harry Potter books and that J. K. Rowling had stolen everything by telepathy.

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.