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Bribe Quotes

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

"Smiley's People". Book by John le Carre, November 1979.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Sir Edward Coke (1797). “Institutes of the laws of England: containg the exposition of many ancient and other statutes ...”, p.147

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

Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.715

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.138

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Death takes no bribes.

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.16, Nayika Publishing

Society has no bribe for me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.60, Harvard University Press

Neither bribe nor loose thy right.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329