| Author |
Quotes |
| Aelius Donatus | Perish those who said our good things before we did. |
| Alexander Pope | Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole, How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug, And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug. |
| Alexander Pope | With him most authors steal their works, or buy, Garth did not write his own Dispensary. |
| Alexis Piron | Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation |
| Alexander Pope | Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole; How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug, And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug. |
| Alexander Pope | With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. |
| Charles Churchill | Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own. |
| Hannah More | He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces By plucking bon-mots from their places. |
| Isaac D Israeli | The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised. - Isaac D'Israeli, |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | I recover my property wherever I find it. |
| Jonathan Swift | Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em. |
| Michael Eyquen de Montaigne | Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears. |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. |
| Rudyard Kipling | When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an' took--the same as me. |
| Sir William Davenant | Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other. |
| Stephen Gosson | He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole. |
| Wendell Phillips | Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. |
| John Milton | For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary. |
| John Milton | Copy from one, it's plagiarism, copy from two, it's research. |
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