Innocent Love Quotes

• Such an act
  That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
  Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
  From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
  And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
  As false as dicers' oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Hypocrite, Rose, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Faces, Innocence

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

  Anne Rice

  Love, Hands, Together

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• I have been all men known to history,
  Wondering at the world and at time passing;
  I have seen evil, and the light blessing
  Innocent love under a spring sky.

  R. S. Thomas

  Spring, Blessing, Men

  "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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• Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Sex, Neutrality, Stories

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• By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Passion, Self, Safety

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Art, Max, Comedy

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “A Man of Letters: Selected Essays”, p.160, Bloomsbury Publishing

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