The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
Plagiarism Quotes
Many Gentlemen have done my brother and me (though without naming us) the honor to reprint many of our hymns. Now they are perfectly welcome to do so, provided they print them just as they are. But I desire that they would not attempt to mend them – for they really are not able. None […]
Plagiarize, plagiarize, Let no man’s work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, Don’t shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. Only be sure to call it research.
The first time you use another person’s story, tell your audience who the source is. Around the third or fourth time, introduce the originator as your friend. And, before you know it, the story will become your own.
The only ‘ism’ Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
Plagiarize, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I’d be sued for plagiarism.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we all are wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
(Johnson) said, our judges had not gone deep in the question concerning literary property. I mentioned Lord Monboddo’s opinion, that if a man could get a work by heart, he might print it, as by such an act the mind is exercised. Johnson: “No, Sir; a man’s repeating it no more makes it his property, […]
