Owe

Famous quotes containing the word owe:

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“The Galilean is not a favourite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favour, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)