Plagiarism

"With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary."

"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."

"Call them if you please bookmakers, not authors; range them rather among second-hand dealers than plagiarists."

"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."

"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."

"He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole."

"Je reprends mon bien où je le trouve."

"He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others books; And ruin half an authors graces By plucking bon-mots from their places."

"Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit primus."

"The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps: The robes ye weave, another wears: The arms ye forge another bears."

"I wrote the verse for the spiritual number "Clap Yo Hands" and a lyric called "That Certain Something Youve Got," but Ira changed the lyrics and called it "Oh, Kay, Youre O.K. with Me." It was the title song of the show and the least distinguished. Ira made me a present of the credit for it. It was the opposite of plagiarism; we call it donorism."

"Next oer his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole; How here he sippd, how there he plunderd snug, And suckd all oer like an industrious bug."