"We can say nothing but what hath been said, * * Our poets steal from Homer * * * Our storydressers do as much; he tha…"

"I wrote the verse for the spiritual number "Clap Yo' Hands" and a lyric called "That Certain Something You've Got," b…"

"Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be …"

"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 plun…"

"With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary."

"Steal!—to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make …"

"Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that "plagiarism" farce! As if there was mu…"

"Call them if you please bookmakers, not authors; range them rather among second-hand dealers than plagiarists."

"If any man be shocked that I admit my thefts, imitations, and plagiarisms so openly, it is because that man has not y…"

"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."