Innocence Quotes

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter.

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.