bribery Quotes

Despise The Free Lunch

“Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured.”

“For just a buck, you get the name and number of your one true soul mate. For five bucks, you get your top five.”

“Red tape is no match for green money.”

“Red tape is no match for green money.”

″ I’ll be you best friend! How ‘bout I give you five bucks? What’s the big deal!? It’s just a bus!!”

“You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.”

″‘We believed your two hundred dollars.’ ‘You mean –?’ She seemed to not know what he meant. ‘I mean you paid us more than if you’d been telling the truth,’ he explained blandly, ‘and enough more to make it all right.‘”

“It can have no bearing on the matter before us. Sam Westing manipulated people, cheated workers, bribed officials, stole ideas, but Sam Westing never smoked or drank or placed a bet. Give me a bookie any day over such a fine, upstanding, clean-living man.”

“She had bribed a teacher. She had stolen opium. She had burned herself, lied to her foster parents, abandoned her responsibilities at the store, and broken a marriage deal. And she was going to Sinegard.”

“He was a millionaire, but even this didn’t save him his life.”