Innocent

Famous quotes containing the word innocent:

“The innocent brightness of a new-born Day
Is lovely yet;
The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality;”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they do meet, their victims lie strewn around.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)