Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

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 of 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 recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

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.

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Self-plagiarism is style.

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.