Famous quotes containing the word pay:
“Troilus. You have bereft me of all words, lady.
Pandarus. Words pay no debts, give her deeds.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“Thus can the demigod, Authority
Make us pay down for our offence, by weight,
The words of heaven: on whom it will, it will;
On whom it will not, so; yet still tis just.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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