171 Movie Quotes about Money Corruption (Sound Clips) - page 9

Last updated on: September 1, 2025

Memorable movie quotes money's power to degrade morals, incentivize crime, or negatively alter a person's character and values, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

81 Go on. You'd hang your own mother for a couple of lousy votes.

Quote from The Front Page (1974)

82 You trying to bribe an officer? -Uh-huh. -Make it a double hamburger with an onion.

Quote from Rocky Fortune

83 Slipped him a few shekels? You saw him spit in my face.

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's Life of Brian

84 There are some things in this world that are more important than money. And truth is one of them.

Quote from The Future Is Yours (1948)

85 When a man becomes weak enough to accept a bribe, he's already a dying man.

Quote from Gilda (1946)

86 No, my friends. No, money will never make you happy, and happy will never make you money.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

87 We gotta get the money. Right now I'd do anything for money. I'd kill somebody for money. I'd kill you for money. Oh, no, you're my friend. I kill you for nothin'.

Chico Marx as Chico in The Cocoanuts (1929)

88 They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have and peace they lack.

James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in Field of Dreams (1989)

89 You know, I even imagined that some day someone might try to bribe me with a small fortune. -Now, what did you do? -I was tempted. -That's a good start. -But I said no.

Joanna Lumley as Marie Jouvet in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

90 Your money. Your lifestyles. The things that people value and covet so dearly are the bait that lures them out of the light.

Quote from Belly (1998)