Pay

Famous quotes containing the word pay:

    “Don’t pay any attention to Ah Ling. He has a mania for quoting Confucius. And Charlie Chan.”
    —Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Mrs. Houghland, Murder by Television, reassuring her friends after the houseboy has pointed out a sign of ill omen (1935)

    “I can and will pay it if it is right; but I don’t wish to be “diddled!””
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)