Innocence Quotes - Page 5
"Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 1060,
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.149, Ouida
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed
May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.146, Open Road Media
Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find
John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.11, Taylor & Francis
Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.264, Crown Forum
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
1961 'On Self Respect', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.
Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.9, Faber & Faber
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin