Famous quotes containing the word innocent:
“My object all sublime I shall achieve in time
To let the punishment fit the crime The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturers horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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