The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.

Genius Borrows nobly.

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.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not...

And for the citation of so many authors, ’tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own…...

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:Plagiarize!Plagiarize!Let no one else’s work evade your eyes!Remember why the good Lord made your...

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...

Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism.

I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.

Someone who has got something of his own only understands the pain than anyone without his own stand and pain got anything under the sun.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

A person who speaks his own words makes the true sense to the world and, therefore, the real difference in the lives of the people to whom he speaks directly or indirectly.

Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.

A person’s single quote is good enough to note for the enlightened people as what he has got in his mind, thought in his heart and sought from his soul in his life from the...

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

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...

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.