About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: writing originality theft plagiarism judgment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: speech originality theft copying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. —Henry Morgan More about this quote Tags: self theft stealing wordplay Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I studiously avoided all so-called holy men. I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself — out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: truth religion nature theft holy men Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: money theft income silver Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed. —Jodi Picoult in Mercy More about this quote Tags: love soul heart theft Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. —Lionel Trilling More about this quote Tags: art theft imitation stealing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness. —Emo Philips More about this quote Tags: forgiveness prayer theft stealing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond this one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy, . . . or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: ownership morality crime theft Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. —Igor Stravinsky More about this quote Tags: art theft Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it. —Joseph Conrad More about this quote Tags: war history theft conquest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email