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Aelius Donatus
Perish those who said our good things before we did. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.]
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Alexander Pope
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.
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Alexander Pope
With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
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Alexis Piron
Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]
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Charles Churchill
Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
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Hannah More
He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces By plucking bon-mots from their places.
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John Milton
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.
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Jonathan Swift
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em. [Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
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Marcus Valerius Martial
My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief.
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Marcus Valerius Martial
Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.
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Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
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Robert Burton
They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.
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Robert Burton
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.
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Rudyard Kipling
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an' took--the same as me.
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Sir William Davenant
Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
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Stephen Gosson
He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.
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