Pope Innocent XI

Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or innocent:

“For wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other’s aid, like man and wife.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)