Top 114 Bribe Quotes & Sayings

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

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

Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

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

You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Neither bribe nor loose thy right.

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

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

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.

James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

My election only proves that the citizens are tired of the experienced politicians who over the past 28 years created a country of opportunities - opportunities to steal, bribe and loot.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.

Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? How much

I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you bribe them to say things that they wouldn't otherwise say.

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

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

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

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

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.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

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

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

My father didn't want to ski alone, so he took me up to the mountains in order to basically bribe my mom to come with him.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be a bribe. There's going to be something.

A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.

Society has no bribe for me.

I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.

I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

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

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

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

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

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

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.