Innocence Quotes

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Jesus Christ

The Gospel of Matthew 10:16 (NIV), to the disciples.

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Summer has come and passed. The innocent can never last.


— Green Day, in "Wake Me Up When September Ends".

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A story of innocence in a world of ignorance.


— Tag line of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas".

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As innocent as a new-laid egg.


— W. S. Gilbert, Engaged, Act I.

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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

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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).

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Innocence once lost cannot be regained.


— Lucifer in The Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman

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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.

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


— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, in On Germany (1813), Part II, Chapter VIII

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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.

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He's armed without that's innocent within.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, Epistles of Horace, Epistle I, Book I, line 93.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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


— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, in On Germany (1813), Part II, Chapter VIII

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


— Henry David Thoreau, in Walden (1854) Ch XVII : Spring

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An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, and glides in modest innocence away.

samuel johnson

— Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, line 293.

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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.

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