Quotes on Bribe

Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.

Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever since that night in Dover prison I have never been tempted to break my vow.. My Parents always drummed into me that all you have life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name you'll never be happy.

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.