Innocence Quotes

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

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

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.

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

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

This innocence begins to weigh me down.

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.

The artificial is always innocent.

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.