The more women are paid, the less eager theyare to marry.

-Faludi, Susan
  Backlash (UK edn), ch.2,'Man Shortages and Barren Wombs'.

The man who offers a bribe gives awaya little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has just paid for a woman.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  The Comedians, pt.1, ch.4.

I paid the prices of life Standing where Rome immortal heard October's strife, A war poet whose right of honour cuts falsehood like a knife. 375

-Gurney, Ivor
c.1922  'Poem for End'.

'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly,'and enough more to make it all right.'

-Hammett, (Samuel) Dashiell
  The Maltese Falcon,'The Black Bird'.

   We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable wayaccording as they are being paid in or paid out.

-Huxley, SirJulian Sorell
  Essays of a Biologist, ch.5.

Patron.Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.

-Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)
  The Good Companions, bk.1, ch.1.

I paid for this microphone.

-Reagan, Ronald Wilson
  To a New Hampshire moderator who tried to keep President Reagan from speaking on behalf of other candidates. Reported in Congressional Quarterly, 23 May.

Un sourire est souvent l'essentiel. On est paye¤   par un sourire. On est re¤  compense¤   par un sourire.On est anime¤ par un sourire. Et la qualite¤   d'un sourire peut faire que l'on meure. A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile.One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

-Saint-Exupe¤  ry, Antoine de
  Lettre a'   un otage.

Paying for what she doesn't get rankles so dreadfully with Louisa; I can't make her see that it's one of the preliminary steps to getting what you haven't paid for.

-Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones
  The House of Mirth, bk.2, ch.2.