Innocence Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Innocence
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~ Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. ~

Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker

~ Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ~

John Updike

~ 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. ~

James Baldwin

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

Latin Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

~ It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.” ~

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 ~

Abraham Maslow

~ But innocence has nothing to dread. ~

Jean Baptiste Racine

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

Patrice Redd Vecchione

~ Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ~

Robert Browning

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

Leonard F. Peltier

~ I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. ~

Donna Tartt

~ Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. ~

Anne Louise Germaine de StaÎl

~ Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ 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. ~

Graham Greene

~ Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. ~

Maximilien Robespierre

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

Leonand F. Peltier

~ The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. ~

Sylvia Kristel

~ Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. ~

Mason Cooley

~ There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. ~

Sylvia Kristel

~ “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity” ~

William Butler Yeats

~ The little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another. ~

George Santayana

~ A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. ~

Henry Miller

~ Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. ~

Albert Camus

~ Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. ~

Yoko Ono

~ Innocence is ignorance. ~

Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin

~ Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. ~

Honore de Balzac

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