CORRUPTION

Related Subjects: Bribery, Decay, Dissipation, Evil, Temptation, Vice, Wickedness

1. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus
   

2. Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
   Of an unmeasurable length: they spread
   Ev'rywhere.—BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, Honest Man's Fortune
   

3. Evil communications corrupt good manners.—Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:33
   

4. Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder: it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.—BURKE
   

5. Corruption never has been compulsory.—ANTHONY EDEN
   

6. Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.—GIBBON, Decline and Fall
   

7. He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.—Proverb
   

8. Corruption of the best becomes the worst.—Proverb
   

9. Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

10. Corruption wins not more than honesty.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

11. They that touch pitch will be defiled.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

12. The corruptions of the country are closely allied to those of the town, with no difference but what is made by another mode of thought and living.—SWIFT