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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. Graham Greene
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. Isaac Asimov
Perhaps if you win this one I can put a word in for you. You know, extra carrots and that sort of thing, a bit of molasses in the evening. A bigger brass plaque for your box at home."That's bribery," Keeley murmured. Brian turned, his eyes going warm. "That's bargaining," he corrected. "But if I can interest you in a bribe," he began and opened the box door intending to snatch Keeley inside for a much anticipated welcome back kiss. He nearly stepped over Mo. "Sorry. Didn't see you there."I'm... Nora Roberts
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office. Jonathan Swift
Orison Swett Marden quote: "Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low."
Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low. Orison Swett Marden
Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences." Sherlock Holmes, The Problem of Thor Bridge Arthur Conan Doyle
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered. Graham Greene
yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music Bob Marley
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less... C. S. Lewis
I believe that I am mad," said Vertue presently. "The world cannot be as it seems to be. If there is something to go to, it is a bribe, and I cannot go to it: if I can go then there is nothing to go to."Vertue," said John, "give in. For once yield to desire. Have done with your choosing. Want something. C. S. Lewis
Thornton Wilder quote: "The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a..."
The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder. Thornton Wilder
Joseph Conrad quote: "Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot..."
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. Joseph Conrad
Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there has been a leap in bribes. Barry Unsworth
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. Jorge Luis Borges
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the..."
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. Joyce Carol Oates

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