Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Charles Dickens

We are so very 'umble.

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Samuel Liles

They're not stealing from us, they're stealing from God. This is God's house.

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

Rickey Henderson

I can still steal a base anytime I get ready.

T. S. Eliot

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

Stephen Hawking

Plagiarism saves time.

Moliere

I recover my property wherever I find it.

James Russell Lowell

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Emile M. Cioran

Existing is plagiarism.

Pedro Almodovar

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

Karl Kraus

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.