# What's the difference between plagiarism, parody, and homage?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 19, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-plagiarism-parody-and-homage/728246 "2015-08-19T05:15:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-plagiarism-parody-and-homage/728246/21 "2015-08-27T19:19:29Z")

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> [@Lamia](#):
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> He says “I wish I’d thought of it” and she says “You will, love, you will.” (This exchange is itself a paraphrase of a famous quip James McNeill Whistler made to Oscar Wilde.)

Nitpick: Actually, Wilde said it to Whistler. One way to know this is that it was an amusing quip.

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