(26 quotes found)
“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
“Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.”
Wilson Mizner
“The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
“Self-plagiarism is style.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Originality is undetected plagiarism.”
W. R. Inge
“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
“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
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”
Dean Inge
“Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
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