“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.”
Guy deBord
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic”
Pablo Picasso
“I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism”
Dorothy Parker
“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
“Originality is undetected plagiarism.”
W. R. Inge
“The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
“Self-plagiarism is style.”
Alfred Hitchcock
