Innocent

Famous quotes containing the word innocent:

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

“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)

“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)