Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

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

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

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.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

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

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

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

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

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.

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

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

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

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