Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe. — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.” — Tahir Shah 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
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
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
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
If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man… — Reverend Ike Copy Share Image
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives… — Jonathan Swift 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
Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features… — Lord Byron 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
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
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
Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Successful Businessman Bound For Given Bribe, But Bribe Can't Bound Making Someone Success! — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
If the criteria was whether it demanded a cash bribe, what data wouldn't be considered corrupted? — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
“Women’s beauty is a sweet coat to something more sinister- a bribe to men to plunge into the unknown” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Bribe is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The X makes it sound cool. — Bender (The Cartoon Character Copy Share Image
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“I would make a new bribe every day if I thought staying her would make you happy.” — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want. — Richard Rossi Copy Share Image
“It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in".” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image