| 17 Bribery Quotes
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“And ye sall walk in silk attire,
And siller hae to spare,
Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,
Nor think o'Donald mair.”
Miss Susanna Blamire Quotes Source: The Siller Clown
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“'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures;
And all are to be sold, if you consider
Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features
Are brought up, others by a warlike leader;
Some by a place--as tend their years or natures;
The most by ready cash--but all have prices,
From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 27)
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“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."”
William Coxe Quotes Source: Memoirs of Walpole (vol. IV, p. 369)
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“A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.”
Demosthenes Quotes Source: bribed not to speak against Harpalus, he pretended to have lost voice
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“Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: On His Own Character
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“But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,
Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: London (l. 177)
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“Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats,
And ask no questions but the price of votes.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 95)
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“Alas! the small discredit of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Epilogue to Satire (dialogue II, l. 46)
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“Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 187)
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“By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are
abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will
be an end of every modest restraint.
[Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura,
Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]”
Sextus Propertius Quotes Source: Elegioe (III, 13, 48)
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“No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.”
Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes Source: Love the Only Price of Love
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“There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, iii)
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“'Tis gold
Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes
Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up
This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold
Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief,
Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, iii)
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“What, shall one of us,
That struck for the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers--shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honors
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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“There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none
Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
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“Every man has his price.”
Sir Robert Walpole Quotes Source: in a speech
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“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
George Washington Quotes Source: Moral Maxims--Virtue and Vice--The Trial of Virtue
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