Character Quote by William Godwin

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

— Anatole France

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

— John Lancaster Spalding

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

— William Penn

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

“Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.”

— William maxwell

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

— Honore de Balzac

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man…

— Levi Woodbury

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

— Helene Cixous

“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied purity. To…

— Steven Erikson

“He'd learned pretty early that the illusioned virtuous creatures were no more than that— illusions. Innocence was a community that was used up and…

— Camille Oster

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

— Ouida

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance...

— William Blake