Bribery Quotes

“Abuse of power”

“Every man has his price.”

“A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.”

“There is gold for you.
Sell me your good report.”

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”

“bribery”

“Wikipedia: Bribery”

“Alas! the small discredit of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.”

“Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.”

“No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.”

“Auro pulsa fides, auro venalia jura,
Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.”

“Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.”

“Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats,
And ask no questions but the price of votes.”

“But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,
Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.”

“His sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.”

“When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.”

“And ye sail walk in silk attire,
And siller hae to spare,
Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,
Nor think o' Donald mair.”

“What, shall one of us,
That struck the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers, shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?”

“There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.”

“Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."”