How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Why we as a nation worship youth so much is because we confuse it with innocence. We long for the irresponsibility of… — Gerda Charles Copy Share Image
“For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“That long-gone sense of innocence and trust now reminded her of the feeling she now had when about to put on a… — Juliet Nicolson Copy Share Image
When is the age or even the moment when you go from being kids to being something else? People say that we're… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
“Estevan took off his shirt and lay back against the front of the boat, his hands clasped behind his head, exposing his… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He was never entirely sure what financial services meant. It seemed to cover a spectrum from innocent to guilty and then extremely… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge, not at all; it has something to do with innocence. Something of the purity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There's a beauty in that innocence that comes from not knowing. It allowed me to take a lot of risks and I… — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
Fundamental protections, the assumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the right to appear before a court have all been sacrificed on… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Most of the songs were based round the theme of lost innocence and as that's precisely what we were experiencing at the… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
“What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence—so loving, so pure, so divine—that the sage bows and the wise… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and… — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The true beauty of Christmas is revealed when we adore the season, not like some weary adult, but like a bubbly little… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straight-forwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can still hug some people who hurt me, most times it's not their fault. You should have seen how tough life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
“When we’re willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
