Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Innocence

Quotes about: Innocence

• Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Bud, World, Spirit

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.326, Random House

• The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Two, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

• No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Eden, Picnics

  'Out of a Book' in 'Orion III' (ed. Rosamund Lehmann et al, 1946)

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