Famous Quotes About Innocence By Reference

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All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

Innocence
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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Thomas Traherne

Innocence
3

Every harlot was a virgin once.

William Blake

Innocence
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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Horace

Innocence
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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

Virginia Woolf

Innocence
6

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Publilius Syrus

Innocence
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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

Innocence
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Robert South

Innocence
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Anatole France

Innocence
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Anatole France

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Innocence
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Oscar Wilde

Innocence
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

James Baldwin

Innocence
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel

Innocence
15

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

Innocence
16

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

G. K. Chesterton

Innocence
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

Albert Camus

Innocence
18

The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.

Innocence
19

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

Innocence
20

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Innocence
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“Commander, you and your Stepsons are always welcome here. This fuss is not our doing. I saw the body. There’s no sign of…murder on her, but sometimes girls just…die.”

Chris Morris

Murder, Guilt, Death, Innocence

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All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

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.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

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

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

“Commander, you and your Stepsons are always welcome here. This fuss is not our doing. I saw the body. There’s no sign of…murder on her, but sometimes girls just…die.”