INNOCENCE QUOTES

quotations about innocence

Innocence quote

We may think of children as being innocent, but the experience of innocence is a way of being, a chosen state of mind--and one that can be experienced at any stage of life.

JOHN B. IZZO

Second Innocence


It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook


Innocence can never perish;
Blooms as fair in looks that cherish
Dim remembrance of the days
When life was young, as in the gaze
Of youth himself all rosy-clad,
Whom but to see is to be glad.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

"Innocence"

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

GRAHAM GREENE

The Quiet American


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

WALTER LIPPMANN

Drift and Mastery


Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Quiet American


That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

LISE HAND

attributed, The Truth in Words


When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence.

PATRICE REDD VECCHIONE

Revenge and Forgiveness


Innocence and mysteriousness never dwell long together.

ROUSSEAU

attributed, Day's Collacon


Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

LEONARD F. PELTIER

Prison Writings


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

OUIDA

Two Little Wooden Shoes


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

PHILIP MASSINGER

The Maid of Honour


Fair innocence, thou lovely Thing, unblemisli'd and unstained,
All spotless is thy snowy wing, thy light hath never waned.

H. ROWLAND HARDING

"To the Spirit of Innocence"


Innocence is the wonderment of life.

DAVID MATTHEW BROWN

The Book of Light


It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Commentaries on the Laws of England


When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

PATRICK ROTHFUSS

The Name of the Wind


We each begin in innocence.
We all become guilty.

LEONARD F. PELTIER

Prison Writings


Always the innocent are the first victims.... So it has been for ages past, so it is now.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


Innocence is destroyed by contact with the world.

AL-FORABI

attributed, Day's Collacon


I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

JESUS

Matthew 10:16

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