Plagiarist Quotes & Sayings

I used to have a big dog, a rottweiler, to guard the place. One night I was working late, and he was outside barking in the snow. He wouldn't stop. Then he stopped. I went out ten minutes later with a lamp, and there was a ring of wolves eating my dog. — Martin Cruz Smith

God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them. God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation. — Jonathan Safran Foer

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist! — Paul Gauguin

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want. — Andrew J. Bernstein

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes

She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like to stop being able to see how people are going to bite it. Oh, and a pony. I definitely want a goddamn pony. — Chuck Wendig

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare. — Kerry Greenwood

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I. — Joni Mitchell

What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist. — John Sculley

I'm not worried about plagiarism, I don't care if every person between here and Hell's creation put their name on my work as long as it ends up in the eyes of someone that found peace in the words — Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar. — Amos Oz

A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof. — George H. Smith

All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. — Victor Hugo

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I become aware that once again the only empty seat is beside me. I shake my head as the thought crosses my mind that Christian might have purchased the adjacent seat so that I couldn't talk to anyone. I dismiss the idea as ridiculous - no one could be that controlling, that jealous, surely. I close my eyes as the plane taxis toward the runway. — E.L. James

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody. — Pablo Picasso

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more. — Sarah Kane

By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across
each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip
is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale. — Rabih Alameddine

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. — Charles Kingsley

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. — Karl Kraus

When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you. — Abu Abbas

They had a wonderful romantic night together. In fact it was so wonderful that at one point Zeus excused himself, took his phone into the bathroom and texted Helios, the sun god: Bro, take a few days off. I need this night to last! — Rick Riordan

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

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists. — A.E. Samaan

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. — Paul Gauguin

Most forms of Protestantism are inherently secular, at least at the ideological level, due to their compartmentalization of faith from works, of church from state, of grace from an incarnational manifestation of sanctity. — Gregory C. Dilsaver

You couldn't handle being me." She swirled her forefingers around her head and admitted, "All that goes on inside this head at any given time ... would destroy you. — Shelly Laurenston

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one. — Mark Twain

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature? — Benjamin West

There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about. — Pritam Chakraborty

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation — Benjamin Disraeli