Richelle Mead 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.

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

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

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.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

I cheated once on a spelling test. I didn't know how to spell period. I leaned over the desk and looked at someone else's paper. I was probably ten or something like that.

If you are cheating on the SATs so your son or daughter can get into Yale, what do you think it's going to be like for them when they show up to Yale, and they should be at a completely different school?

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination where they said. "Describe the Devil," and in order to get 12 points on that question one had to say that the Devil was red and had a forked tail and cloven hoofs and fangs and horns on his head. So I merrily wrote this answer down and got my 12 points. I always got straight hundreds in Bible study.

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

I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

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

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

To plagiarize an out of date Ph.D. thesis and to present it as an official report of the latest British intelligence information, surely it reveals a lack of awareness of the disastrous consequences of such a deception. This is not a trivial leak. It is a document on which is the basis of whether or not this country goes to war and whether or not young servicemen and servicewomen are to put their own lives at risk and indeed thousands, tens of thousands of innocent civilians.

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

I'm not afraid of taking long walks. A lot of people want to be great, but they want to cheat to get to the greatness. I'm cool with talking the walk around the block to get to where I want to go as opposed to the cheat, because the cheat has flaws.

Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.

Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

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

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.

At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!