Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

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

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

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

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

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

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

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.