Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

Existing is plagiarism.

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

No man was ever great by imitation.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.