Innocence Quotes - Page 11

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

I met Big Pun when I was a young boy. I think that he really gravitated to my innocence.

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.

My innocence is a dying flower

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

There's a beauty in that innocence that comes from not knowing. It allowed me to take a lot of risks and I took them because I chose a company in a field that I love. So for me, it didn't even feel like working.

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!