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Plagiarism: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy.
Democritus to the Reader.
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.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy.
Democritus to the Reader. The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.— ISAAC DISRAELI — Curiosities of
Literature. Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity. 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.— EMERSON — Shakespeare.
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.— MILTON — Iconoclastes. XXIII.
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.— MONTAIGNE — Essays. Of Physiognomy.
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.— POPE — Dunciad. Bk. I. L. 127.
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.— S. R. B. SHERIDAN — The Critic. Act I. Sc. 1.
Call them if you please bookmakers, not authors; range them rather among secondhand dealers than plagiarists.— VOLTAIRE — A Philosophical Dictionary.
Plagiarism. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.— SIR HENRY WOTTON — Preface to the
Elements of Architecture.