Pope Innocent III

Famous quotes containing the words pope, innocent and/or iii:

    Good nature and good sense must ever join;
    To err is human, to forgive divine.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

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

    The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)