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They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal
from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes
last is commonly best.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse--
Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;
Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known,
Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Apology (l. 232)
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Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of
other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for
they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and
image of the one as much as of the other.
Author: Sir William Davenant
Source: Gondibert--Preface
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The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy
mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all
sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other
authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner
that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to
recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so
skillfully shall the whole be disguised.
- Isaac D'Israeli,
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Curiosities of Literature--Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity
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Perish those who said our good things before we did.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.]
Author: Aelius Donatus
Source: Commentary on Ecclesiastes (ch. I), according to St. Jerome, referring to the words of Terence
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When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He
breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that
a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is
entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at
discretion.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Shakespeare
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He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his
own nose, is lyke a foole.
Author: Stephen Gosson
Source: In the School of Abuse--Loyterers
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When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took--the same as me.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Source: Barrack-Room Ballads--Introduction
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My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is
yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 53)
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Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you
to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why
do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass
for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be
able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. X, ep. 100)
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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.
Author: John Milton
Source: Iconoclastes (XXIII)
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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Author: John Milton
Source: Iconoclastes (XXIII)
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I recover my property wherever I find it.
[Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Les Fourberies de Scapin, Cyrano de Bergerac used a scene in "Pedant Joue" communicated to him by Mo
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The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey
of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or
marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform
and mix up into a work all his own.
[Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en
font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny
marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les
transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XXV)
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one,
disguising and altering it for some new service.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays--Of Physiognomy
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He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.
Author: Hannah More
Source: Florio, the Bas Blue
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all
wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,
to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Author: Wendell Phillips
Source: Lecture--The Lost Arts
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Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation.
[Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]
Author: Alexis Piron
Source: La Metromanie (III, 6)
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Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole;
How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,
And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 127)
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With him most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 618)
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The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge, another bears.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Song--To Men of England
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Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts
as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass
for their own.
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Source: The Critic (act I, sc. 1)
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
[Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: said about Chief Justice Whitshed's motto for his coach
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