Innocence Quotes
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. (Quote by - William Penn)
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
The innocent is the person who explains nothing. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
But innocence has nothing to dread. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Racine)
All things truly wicked start from innocence. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
As the blush is the signal of innocence, so is serenity of manner the token of a quiet conscience (Quote by - Suzanne Curchod Necker)
Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. (Quote by - Haug)
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. (Quote by - John Updike)
The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies. (Quote by - Leonard F. Peltier)
They represented tomeanabsolute idea of thefirst state of innocence, before man knew how to sin. (Quote by -Behan)
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. (Quote by - Donna Tartt)
But thus: if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush and tyranny Tremble at patience. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
O God, keep me innocent; make others great! (Quote by - Caroline Matilda)
O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide Thine awful and serenest countenance From those who know thee not! (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. (Quote by - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed (Quote by - May Sarton)
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. (Quote by - William Blake)
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. (Quote by - Lyman Abbott)
I love to let out all my feelings of who I really am through my pictures. I let out my sexiness, innocence, daringness, sweet, and wild side. (Quote by - Alley Baggett)
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten. (Quote by - José Bergamín)
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. (Quote by - Lewis H Lapham)
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. (Quote by - Elizabeth E. Bowen)
Innocence is always unsuspicious. (Quote by - Haliburton)
The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. (Quote by - Maximilien Robespierre)
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. (Quote by - Nathaniel Parker Willis)
I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating. (Quote by - George W Bush)
We become innocent when we are unfortunate. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. (Quote by - Sean Penn)
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
He's armed without that's innocent within. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. (Quote by - Mary Astor)
In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good. (Quote by - Ursula K. Le Guin)
Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. (Quote by - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker)
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted! (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed That any did. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. (Quote by - Anatole France)
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. (Quote by - Louis Kronenberger)
If United States foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. (Quote by - Ward Churchill)
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence Love takes the meaning in love's conference. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It reminds me [Waterloo by Abba] of the happy childhood I had at home before going off for seven years to boarding school in Sept 1974. It evokes a sense of childhood innocence and naivety. (Quote by - David Delargy)
Diffidence is not always innocence (Quote by - Suzanne Curchod Necker)
The most effective coquetry is innocence. (Quote by - Alphonse De Lamartine)
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. (Quote by -Bellow)
When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence. (Quote by - Patrice Redd Vecchione)
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. (Quote by - Irving Howe)
We each begin in innocence.We all become guilty. (Quote by - Leonard F. Peltier)
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
