- Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

- When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

- Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

- 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 just paid for a woman.

- Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

- A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

- Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

- The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

- In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations.

- No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

- It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.

- The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.