Famous quotes containing the word innocent:
“Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilettethrow Roderick Random into the closetput The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; thereput The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (17511816)
“Gay bells or sad, they bring you memories
Of half-forgotten innocent old places:
We and our bitterness have left no traces
On Munster grass and Connemara skies.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Everyone wants to be innocent at all costs, even if that means accusing the human race and the heavens.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
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