Self Plagiarism Quotes & Sayings

Steal from one man, it's plagiarism. Steal from a thousand men, it's research. — Quentin Reynolds

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. — Jimi Hendrix

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling "Thief."
If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
Nor has the fool been enriched.
The thief flatters us by stealing.
We flatter him by complaining. — Ben Hecht

There was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth ... there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations — Mark Twain

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research. — Heinrich Rohrer

There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism. — Hunter S. Thompson

You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism. — Kathy Acker

I recover my property wherever I find it. — Moliere

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism. — Will McDonough

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing - and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that. — Mark Twain

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks. — Thomas Mallon

From: Anastasia Steele
Subject: Moaning
Date: May 31 2011 19:39 EST
To: Christian Grey
Gotta go.
Laters, baby.
...
From: Christian Grey
Subject: Plagiarism
Date: May 31 2011 16:41
To: Anastasia Steele
You stole my line.
And left me hanging.
Enjoy your dinner.
Christian Grey
CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc. — E.L. James

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. — Jay Kay

Art is either revolution or plagiarism — Paul Gauguin

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals ... is the plagiarism of ourselves. — Marcel Proust

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do. — Robert Genn

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. — Charles Spurgeon

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons! — Henry Ward Beecher

Self-plagiarism is style. — Alfred Hitchcock

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism
self-denial. — G.K. Chesterton

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. — Robert K. Merton

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism. — Red Skelton

Existing is plagiarism. — Emile M. Cioran

Most authors steal their works, or buy. — Alexander Pope

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle. — Molly Ivins

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. — Paul Gaugin

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book. — Rick Riordan

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. — Malcolm Gladwell

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. — George A. Moore

I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow. — Joseph Epstein

Plagiarism is not only wrong, it's spelled funny, okay. — Pepe The King Prawn

The shrimp's protein and ours are not exactly the same, but they're so
similar that if you turned up in court and tried to convince a judge that your
version was not a badly concealed plagiarism, you'd be very unlikely to win.
In fact, you'd be a laughing stock, for rhodopsin is not restricted to vent shrimp
and humans but is omnipresent throughout the animal kingdom.... Trying to persuade a judge that your rhodopsin is not plagiarised
would be like trying to clajm that your television set is fundamentally different
from everyone else's, just because it's bigger or has a flat screen. — Nick Lane

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. — Charles Caleb Colton

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