Innocence Quotes · Page 21

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

— Stephen Spender

I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.

— Charlotte Caffey

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

— Mason Cooley

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

— William Blackstone

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

— Donna Tartt

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Time of innocence, a time of confidences, long ago it must be.

— Simon And Garfunkel

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

— Henry David Thoreau

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become…

— May Sarton

Even as a child, you can recognise the innocence of Piglet or the strange adult qualities of Eeyore. You just know you…

— Jim Broadbent

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but…

— Kahlil Gibran

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a…

— Romare Bearden

The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful…

— Anne Carson

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents…

— Norman Lamm

“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.”

— Albert Camus

“What I call innocence is the spirit’s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once…

— Annie Dillard

Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed…

— Michael Franti

You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from…

— Darynda Jones

I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful,…

— Charles Portis

I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever…

— Ant McPartlin

I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British…

— Quentin S. Crisp

With Bill Clinton, his lawyers always wanted him to say nothing about the Lewinsky scandal. Defendant Clinton had the right to remain…

— Gavin Esler

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

— Ellen Glasgow

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.

— Nalini Singh

“His career, my education, his freedom, my innocence…all tied together in a nice little package of morality.”

— Gretchen de la O

“You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as…

— Stephen King

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

— Anthony Anderson

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

— Lynda Barry

“but sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation.”

— Tad Williams

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

— Chris O'Dowd

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world...

— Franz Kafka

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

— Henry David Thoreau

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

— Douglas Sirk

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

— Jack Lynch

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

— Michael Pollan

“Too much innocence can also refer to ignorance. Therefore, mankind is innocent.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“It was easy to fool the three of us (tween boys), who were naked with innocence.”

— “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

— Ursula K. Le Guin