Innocence Quotes · Page 19

“Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face.”

— Amit Kalantri

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

— Saul Bellow

“The lily represents the restored innocence of the soul upon death.”

— C.M. Stunich

“Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.”

— C.S. Lewis

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

— Irving Howe

“You can't measure what a boy did in innocence against what a man has to do for the rest of his life.”

— Aaron Allston

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

— Ellen Hopkins

“The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.”

— Kurt Chambers

One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and…

— Cathleen Schine

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

— Joseph Heller

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality...…

— Rajneesh

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and…

— David Schwimmer

...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will…

— William Blake

“You know what the trouble is with New York?” she asked me. “No,” I said. “Nobody here,” she said, “believes that there…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Maybe thats why they hate us.For reminding them that innocence is just an illusion, we're dark and maggoty all the way down…

— Dia Reeves

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike…

— Edward Albee

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are…

— George Santayana

Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children,…

— Evangeline Booth

There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent…

— Michael Chabon

Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy…A boy is truth with…

— Alan Beck

“It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to…

— Cecelia Ahern

In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

— Jim Henson

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

— Franz Grillparzer

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

— Roger Scruton

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

— River Phoenix

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

— Mahira Khan

“He was the picture of innocence and a masterpiece of temptation.”

— Wendy Beck

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

— Jackie Jackson

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

— Josh Billings

Hello Innocence. Though it seems like we've been friends for years.

— Jamie Cullum

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

— Pamela Meyer

Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Bruce Springsteen

“Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.”

— Christopher Fry

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

— David Bentley Hart

Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

— A. J. McLean