Innocence Quotes

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of...

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of coward...

Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of...

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. P...

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realiz...

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one d...

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first moveme...

The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the in...

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.“Pride?” Catelyn snapped. His mocking ...

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mut...

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fl...

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need ...

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got ...

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady?

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The ...

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children w...

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to r...

The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing...

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t...

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes a...

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum d...

Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above...

This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might...

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative len...

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. O...

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily mis...

But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on ...

I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thou...

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the ...

The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...

Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. 'Strider' I am to one fat man who liv...

Nienor ran on into the woods until she was spent, and then fell, and slept, and awoke; and it was a ...

Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but t...

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence

Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the ...

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create ...

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and cr...

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit a...

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly a...

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest...

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He qui...

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the...

That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. Iwas weeping for an altoge...

Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a wo...

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. ...

what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and ...

What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fr...

Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear ...

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps mo...

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for...

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Atheism is aristocratic the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes...

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to...

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them,...

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

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

Until that day at the dress department Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfor...

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to M...

An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the futur...

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, ...

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

It takes a very long time to become young.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at th...

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving t...

MCMXIVThose long uneven linesStanding as patientlyAs if they were stretched outsideThe Oval or Villa...

Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affa...