Top 9 Bribery Quotes - Quoted Daily

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

Bribery, Blackmail

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

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

Faults, Bribery, Bribe

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

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

Honesty, Bribery, Gates

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

Good Enough, Congress, Bribery

Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.

Accepting, Bribery

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

Bears, May, Bribery

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

Every man has his price.

Money, Men, Bribery

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Gold, Petitions, Bribery

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

Men, Bribery, Has Beens

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

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