I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Heaven was inspired by the first judge to take a bribe.
There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.
Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
Jack Frye: You want me to bribe senators? Howard Hughes: I don't want them bribed, Jack. I want this done legal. I want them *bought*.
Jack Frye: So you want me to bribe senators? Howard Hughes: I don't want them bribed, Jack. I want it done legally. I want them bought.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.
I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
If the criteria was whether it demanded a cash bribe, what data wouldn’t be considered corrupted?
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
