Innocent

Famous quotes containing the word innocent:

“We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“When a felon’s not engaged in his employment
Or maturing his felonious little plans,
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man’s.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)