Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. — Ouida Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in… — Shaffi Mather Copy Share Image
Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“As a system administrator, it's in your best interest to befriend data center technicians and bribe them with coffee, caffeinated soft drinks,… — Evi Nemeth Copy Share Image
Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th'… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Although he could have shot me or turned us back, he did what I gambled every honorable man forced to take a… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property -… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
