Innocence Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Innocence
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~ A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot ~

Allan Beck

~ We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. ~

Georg C. Lichtenberg

~ 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. ~

Leonand F. Peltier

~ The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence ~

Bruce Springsteen

~ Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ~

Louise Bogan

~ Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ~

Bishop Robert South

~ Every life is march from innocence,through temptation, to virtue or vice. ~

Lyman Abbott

~ Once you start asking questions,innocence is gone. ~

Mary Astor

~ The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. ~

William Shakespeare

~ 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. ~

Leonard F. Peltier

~ Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten. ~

JosÈ BergamÌn

~ Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply ~

Warren E. Burger

~ He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. ~

Charles James Fox

~ No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms. ~

Henry Fielding

~ We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty. ~

Leonand F. Peltier

~ He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. ~

Charles James Fox

~ Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. ~

Jean Jacques Rousseau

~ Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. ~

Lewis H Lapham

~ Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? ~

Arthur Miller

~ Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. ~

Mason Cooley

~ Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. ~

Angela Carter

~ Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat. ~

Nicholas Gordon

~ Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. ~

Louis Kronenberger

~ A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. ~

Latin Proverb

~ American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ~

Todd Gitlin

~ Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ~

Anita Brookner

~ Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ~

Samuel Butler

~ When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence. ~

Patrice Redd Vecchione

~ The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ~

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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