Innocence Quotes
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I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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More Innocence Quotes
Summer has come and passed. The innocent can never last.
— Green Day, in "Wake Me Up When September Ends".
Innocence once lost cannot be regained.
— Lucifer in The Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
A story of innocence in a world of ignorance.
— Tag line of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas".
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
— W. S. Gilbert, Engaged, Act I.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
— Anatole France, in Les Dieux Ont Soif [The Gods Are Thirsty] (1912), Chapter XV
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats— 1927 'In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth andConMarkiewicz', l.24-5. Collected in TheWinding Stair and Other Poems (1933).
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only. It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
— Adam Smith, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Sect. II : Of Justice and Beneficence, Chapter 2.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, in On Germany (1813), Part II, Chapter VIII
To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
william blake— William Blake, Auguries of Innocence.
He's armed without that's innocent within.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Epistles of Horace, Epistle I, Book I, line 93.
O, white innocence,That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hideThine awful and serenest countenanceFrom those who know thee not!
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (1819), Act V, scene 3, line 24.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
— Lyman Abbott, quoted in The Seven Powerful Secrets of Emotional Sex? (2005) by A. Vishwanath, p. 144.
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
— Lise Hand, quoted in The Truth in Words : Inspiring Quotes for the Reflective Mind (2002) by Paras, p. 107.
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
— John Milton, in Areopagitica (1644).
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only. It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
— Adam Smith, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Sect. II : Of Justice and Beneficence, Chapter 2.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, in On Germany (1813), Part II, Chapter VIII
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
— Henry David Thoreau, in Walden (1854) Ch XVII : Spring
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, and glides in modest innocence away.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, line 293.
Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act III, scene 1, line 81.
