"Plagiarise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bellay used to say, "walk boldly up to that fine old Roman city, and decorate (as you have done more than once) your temples and altars with its spoils." Besides, let us remember that the German masters of the eighteenth century, whose words M. Buchor has plagiarised, did not hesitate to plagiarise themselves; and in turning the Berceuse of the Oratorio de Noel into a Sainte famille humaine, M. Buchor has respected the musical ideas of Bach much more than Bach himself did when he turned it into a ...
— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland
... Four Books," Pao-y remarked smilingly, "the majority of works are plagiarised; and is it only I, perchance, who plagiarise? Have you got any jade or not?" he went on to inquire, addressing Tai-y, (to the discomfiture) of all who could not ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... ten o'clock! Jimbo, Monkey, please plagiarise off to bed at once!'—in a tone that admitted of ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... known men so sophisticated as to assert that unacknowledged quotation was wrong. But very few really reasonable people will, I think, refuse to agree with me that the only artistic, the only kindly, and the only honest method of quotation is plagiary. If you cannot plagiarise, surely it were better ...
— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells
... to help any great personage in, or the author out of, a difficulty; but since we cannot command their assistance, like the man in the play who forgot his part, we will do without it. Now, have you thought of nothing new, for we must not plagiarise even ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat) |
