Famous quotes containing the word innocent:
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
—William Blackstone (17231780)
“And the beauty
Of the moonlight
Falling there,
Falling
As sleep falls
In the innocent air.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“And then a tall fat man with stringy hair
And a manner that was innocent of sin,
His galluses greasy, his eyes coldly gray,
Appeared, and with a gravely learned air
Spoke from the deep coherence of hell....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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