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Corruption: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims and Moral Sentences. No. 359.

Women know not the whole of their co quetry.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims and Moral Sentences. No. 342.

Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.— IK MARVEL — Reveries of a Bachelor.

Sea Coal. I. Ye belles, and ye flirts, and ye pert little things, Who trip in this frolicsome round, Pray tell me from whence this impertinence springs, The sexes at once to confound?— WHITEHEAD — Song for Ranelagh.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Honest Man's Fortune. Act III. Sc. 3.

*** thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.— COWPER — Task. Bk. I. L. 736.

When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, ask no place, For such preferment is disgrace.— GAY — Fables. Pt. II. Fable 2.

Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume, To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart, Which rank corruption destines for their heart! S.— MOORE — Corruption.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 135.

Blest paper credit! last and best supply ! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. U,— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 39.

Male verum examinat omnis Corruptus judex. A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.— HORACE — Satiræ. II. 2. 8.

Corruptissimâ republicâ, plurimæ leges. The more corrupt the state, the more laws.— TACITUS — Annales. III. 27.