I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“With so many willing, complex women in the world, he had little respect for men who fixated on girlishness. Innocence was, by… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“Let innocence be your mask. Let your beauty hide your heart. Let your enemies count you a friend. Let no one see… — Roseanna White Copy Share Image
“I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes--clearly her father's--were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her,… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“She could sense the fear and anxiety of babies and younger children upon meeting her for the first time; their wide eyed… — Coco Mingolelli Copy Share Image
“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
He has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I can be a lover, a player, a flirt. But that's just not my style... I'm nothing but a good person, with… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows… — Horace Copy Share Image
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Now words like innocence Don't mean a thing You hear the music play But you can't sing Those pictures in your mind… — Rachel Copeland Copy Share Image
“They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to… — Alina Klein Copy Share Image
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
People constantly complain to me about news coverage of criminal cases. 'What happened to the presumption of innocence?' they ask at almost… — Dan Abrams Copy Share Image
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. And innocent people… — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
“The sooner the gardener loses certain kinds of innocence the better, and there is no better place to begin than with the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
“She has this amazing aura around her which catches you off-guard. A girl’s innocence combined with a woman’s sensitivity. A charm that… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics… — John Scott Copy Share Image
Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“They have secret weapons that break the heart of innocents, elevate stress levels, shoot down to make it look guilt. They can… — Maria Karvouni Copy Share Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme A' the moorlands perfuming. To own dear… — Robert Tannahill Copy Share Image
