Famous quotes containing the word innocent:
“There was never yet such a storm but it was Æolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Chaucer’s remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of his God. He comes into his thought without any false reverence, and with no more parade than the zephyr to his ear.... There is less love and simple, practical trust in Shakespeare and Milton. How rarely in our English tongue do we find expressed any affection for God! Herbert almost alone expresses it, “Ah, my dear God!””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“German Flyer: Rotterdam, we destroy in two hours.
Mrs. Miniver: There were thousands killed. Innocent people.
German Flyer: Not innocent—they were against us.
Mrs. Miniver: Women and children.
German Flyer: 30,000 in two hours. And we will do the same thing here!”
—Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)