PLAGIARISM

Related Subjects: Authors, Borrowing, Imitation

1. They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.—ROBERT BURTON,
   Anatomy of Melancholy
   

2. We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. . . . Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.—COLERIDGE, The Reproof and Reply
   

4. Pirate: A sea robber, any robber; particularly a bookseller who seizes the copies of other men.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Dictionary
   

5. They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind.—KIPLING, The "Mary Gloster"
   

6. For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiare.—MILTON, Iconoclastes XXIII
   

7. 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.—WENDELL PHILLIPS
   

8. In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.—PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History
   

9. Or where the pictures for the page atone,
   And Quarles is sav'd by beauties not his own.—POPE, The Dunciad
   

10. Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll,
    In pleasing memory of all he stole.—POPE, The Dunciad
    

11. 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.—SHERIDAN, The Critic