| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. |
| Alexander Pope | Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. |
| Demosthenes | A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. |
| George Washington | Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. |
| Miss Susanna Blamire | 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. |
| Samuel Johnson | But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. |
| Samuel Johnson | Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. |
| Sextus Propertius | 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. |
| Sir Robert Walpole | Every man has his price. |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. |
| Thomas Gray | Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. |
| William Coxe | Flowery oratory he 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 Shakespeare | There is gold for you. Sell me your good report. |
| William Shakespeare | 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 | 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. |
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