Innocence Quotes · Page 10

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

— Oscar Wilde

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

— Jimmy Buffett

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

— Frederick Lenz

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes

— Anonymous

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

— Lyman Abbott

“Billy ... was little more than a sort of upright barbarian ... as Adam presumably might have been [in Eden].”

— Herman Melville

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.”

— William Faulkner

“I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows”

— john j geddes

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

— Diane Wakoski

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution…

— Leonard Peltier

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a…

— Henry Miller

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

— Rajneesh

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but…

— Edith Wharton

It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove…

— Anderson Cooper

“Proving one’s innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto for a honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life,…

— Sheeja Jose

“Innocent like the first dreams A few words dropped on the paper; Contaminated they were by the surrounding air, Fame swarmed, naivety…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I…

— Bernhard Schlink

I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but…

— Cornelia Parker

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…

— Salman Rushdie

“Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature…

— Maximilien Robespierre

Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves…

— Marianne Williamson

“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,…

— Sascha Rothchild

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

— Anonymous

“The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.”

— C.W. Gortner

“He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity…”

— J. Valor

Sometimes, being innocent is another way to show how honest you are.

— Aldyna Threesya

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

— C.M. Stunich

“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

“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

“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

I set my heart out to prove my innocence by any means necessary.

— Brian Banks

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

— Thomas Southerne

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

— Alice Hoffman

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

— Katherine Dunn