BRIBERY

Related Subjects: Corruption, Crime, Gold, Guilt, Honesty, Money, Politics, Temptation

1. Every man has his price, I will bribe left and right.BULWER-LYTTON, Walpole
   

2. 'Tis pleasant purchasing our f ellow­creatures;
   And all are to be sold, if you consider
   Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features
   Are bought up, others by a warlike leader;
   Some by a place—as tend their years or natures;
   The most by ready cash—but all have prices,
   From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. Those who would gain the votes of British tribes,
   Must add to force of merit, force of bribes.—CHARLES CHURCHILL, The Rosciad
   

4. To refuse with the right and take with the left.—JOHN CLARKE, Paroemiologia
   

5. Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
   He had not the method of making a fortune.—THOMAS GRAY, On His Own Character
   

6. Turn from the glitt'ring bribe thy scornful eye.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, London
   

7. But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,
   Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, London
   

8. Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats
   And ask no questions but the price of votes.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Vanity of Human Wishes
   

9. Alas! the small discredit of a bribe
   Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.—POPE, Epilogue to Satires
   

10. Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
    Esteem and love were never to be sold.—POPE, Essay on Man
    

11. By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.—PROPERTIUS, Elegiae
    

12. He that buyeth magistracy must sell justice.—Proverb
    

13. Bribes throw dust into cunning men's eyes.—Proverb
    

14. Bribes will enter without knocking.—Proverb
    

15. No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
    But that with mortal thing it may be bought.—SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Love the Only Price of Love
    

16. Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.—BARNABE RICH, Irish Hubbub
    

17. There is gold for you;
    Sell me your good report.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

18. 'Tis gold
    Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes
    Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up
    Their deer to the stand o' the stealer: and 'tis gold
    Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief;
    Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline

19. Shall we now
    Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

20. All those men have their price.—SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
    

21. Few men have virtue to with­stand the highest bidder.—WASHINGTON, Moral Maxims