Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
Voltaire
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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
VOLTAIRE Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
VOLTAIRE Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
VOLTAIRE Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
VOLTAIRE Originality is undetected plagiarism.
W. R. INGE Originality is undetected plagiarism.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
DEAN INGE Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism
W. R. INGE The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism ca...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another....
VOLTAIRE Nothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T.S. ELIOT I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of ...
TOM LEHRER Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.
KEN NDARU The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the...
H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourse...
MARCEL PROUST But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having
studied nature from his youth, knows the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Quoting is verbal plagiarism.
CARLOS GALINDO Self-plagiarism is style.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Quoting is verbal plagiarism.
CARLOS E. GALINDO After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE Judicious absence is a weapon.
CHARLES READE Real people think originality, speak originality, feel originality, breath originality, see original...
ANUJ SOMANY One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) I hate sarcasm and plagiarism but I like orgasms...
ELECTROJIT The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
HERMAN MELVILLE Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
PAUL GAUGUIN Behind every Plagiarism there is Google
VIKASH SHRIVASTAVA Art is either revolution or plagiarism
PAUL GAUGUIN Originality provokes originality.
JOHN GAY Judicious omission is preferable to correct superfluity
WALTER KIDDE Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research.
UNKNOWN People who copy you will always be one step behind.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
DOROTHY PARKER Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
CLINT EASTWOOD Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Everything is improved by the judicious application of primates.
CHRIS ROBERSON But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLE Originality is not only the most beautiful, but the best personality in life.
ANUJ SOMANY ...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER Each day he made attempts … but produced nothing but quotations, thinly or well disguised, of his ...
IAN MCEWAN It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.
ANGELA PHILLIPS Originality is timeless, be original.
ROSE B MASHIGO Originality is merely an illusion
M.C. ESCHER God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
VOLTAIRE God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
ARTHUR KOESTLER The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's t...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
GEORGE MOORE Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
GEORGE A. MOORE There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
BERTRAND RUSSELL I recover my property wherever I find it.
[Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is ac...
JOHN MILTON Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
JOHN MILTON The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to ...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
PABLO PICASSO Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you
to do, foolish man, with writings ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is
yours stands up against you and say...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation.
[Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'il...
ALEXIS PIRON He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's g...
HANNAH MORE The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey
of them which is all their own; it ...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that
a man, having once shown himself c...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse--
Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole;
How here he si...
ALEXANDER POPE Perish those who said our good things before we did.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.]
AELIUS DONATUS We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal
from Homer . . . . Our storydresse...
ROBERT BURTON Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
[Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
JONATHAN SWIFT When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.
ROBERT BURTON Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts
as gypsies do stolen children, disf...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all
wholesale borrowers. In every matte...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one,
disguising and altering it for some ne...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought '...
RUDYARD KIPLING He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his
own nose, is lyke a foole.
STEPHEN GOSSON To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
WILSON MIZNER Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of
other treasure belonging to the de...
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY With him most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
ALEXANDER POPE A person’s single quote is good enough to note for the enlightened people as what he has got in hi...
ANUJ SOMANY The similarity of thoughts or the point of view between the two persons may appear a case of like-mi...
ANUJ SOMANY Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism.
KURT VONNEGUT Nachahmung ist die aufrichtigste Form der Schmeichelei.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
LAURENCE J. PETER Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
G.K. CHESTERTON Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Originality is the key to being memorable.
SUZY KASSEM Originality is the best form of rebellion.
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