Quotes with bribe

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

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  • Thomas Gray Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Thornton Wilder Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • John Dryden The secret pleasure of a generous act, is the great mind's great bribe.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Edward Coke Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
    Institutes of the Laws of England
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • John Webster 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
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Graham Greene 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
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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