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Bribe Quotes

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

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.
Graham Greene

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

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
Jim Garrison

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
Kent Nerburn

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

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
Claud Cockburn

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.
Gary North

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

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

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

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






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