Bribe Quotations

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

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

I think my greatest single achievement took place on a Tuesday in March, when, with much bribery and corruption, I got them to clear the Grand Canal. That was truly Wagnerian.

Neither bribe nor loose thy right.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

We have a problem in the previous games and the new rule will give coaches and players no chance to bribe umpires and referees,

It certainly suggests a kind of corruption, not the kind of corruption that can be prosecuted under the bribery law but the kind that shows a manipulation of system,

That's good, it means I don't have to bribe him,

You may be giving money to people who bribe officials and kill activists.

Her charges are completely false. It's a misleading attempt to shift the focus off her involvement in the largest congressional bribery scandal in history.