What is knew?

Famous quotes containing the word knew:

    O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always in other places, lost, like sheep.
    Janet Frame (b. 1924)

    I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)