Paul Scofield Quotes

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

The cheaters are going to find way to cheat over and over again.

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

I cannot accept fraud.

Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

Everyone cheats.

As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

If you know how to cheat, start now.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.