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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
— Claud Cockburn
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.
— Mark Twain
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.
— Joyce Carol Oates
What that judge did is immoral. Here in Panama when we bribe somebody we expect loyalty.
— John Le Carre
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
— Imran Khan
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
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
— Samuel Richardson
Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.
— Napoleon Hill
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
— Thornton Wilder
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.
— Peggy Noonan
If only one man is left standing, a bribe cannot bite.
— Mary Lawrence
I don't want to hear from Traffic that my husband was hotdogging the skyways in his minichopper."
"You won't. I bribe too well. — J.D. Robb
"You won't. I bribe too well. — J.D. Robb
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 ...
— Jonathan Swift
I gave her a dangerous smile of my own. "Do not," I warned, "try to threaten, bribe, or blackmail me. Ever. You won't like the consequences.
— Richelle Mead
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
I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.
— Richard Rossi
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
— Edward Coke
You can't lose with the Stuff I use!
— Reverend Ike
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! — Humbert Wolfe
But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to! — Humbert Wolfe
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! — Samuel Johnson
Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! — Samuel Johnson
the rich just bribe their way out. So yes, as far as the rulers are concerned, it works.
— Iain M. Banks
It takes two to bribe.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Prey cannot bribe its way out of a predator's hand.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
— Will Durant
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
— Ouida
If you finish eating this food, I'll get you a whole herd of giant donkeys."
"That's the strangest bribe I've ever heard of, — Ilona Andrews
"That's the strangest bribe I've ever heard of, — Ilona Andrews
A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.
— Samuel Chadwick
American officials held them up for three month until I paid the bribe (otherwise known as "Customs Duty").
— Tom Carter
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
— Alexander Pope
A bribe is just a promise, turned on its head.
— Brandon Sanderson
It's okay to bribe people with books, right?
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
— Thomas Gray
Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? How much
— Groucho Marx
The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.
— Stefan Molyneux
Just a donation request to support the brave public servants of Los Angeles during this time of budgetary shortfalls.
— Kate Danley
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Bribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. — Idries Shah
Bribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. — Idries Shah
me in the bribe?
— John Grisham
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
— Bob Marley
James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007
— Nuhu Ribadu
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.
— Mary Doria Russell
Death takes no bribes.
— Benjamin Franklin
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
— Criss Jami
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
— Matthew Parris
Bribe cartographers to remove us from the atlas.
— Melancton Hawks
As worms are used to bait fish; bribes are used to ensnare fools.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
— Gore Vidal
... 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.
— Sylvia Day
No prey can bribe its way out of the hunter's hand.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can't bribe your way to heaven
— Thabiso Monkoe
Society has no bribe for me ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
— Robert Green Ingersoll