What is repay?

Famous quotes containing the word repay:

    Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the LORD, and he will help you.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 20:22.

    He who does not repay a favor is no gentleman.
    Chinese proverb.

    Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such conterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)