Famous quotes containing the word innocent:
“Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each days life, sore labors bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great natures second course,
Chief nourisher in lifes feast.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.”
—William Blake (17571827)
“A true sceptic will be diffident of his philosophical doubts as well as of his philosophical conviction; and will never refuse any innocent satisfaction, which offers itself, upon account of either of them.”
—David Hume (17111776)
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