(486 quotes found)
“Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.”
Louise Bogan
“Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached”
Antonin Scalia
“In the heat of a political lifetime, Ronald Reagan innocently squirrels away tidbits of misinformation and then, sometimes years later, casually drops them into his public discourse, like gum balls in a quiche.”
Lucy Howard
“Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance”
William Blake
“Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time”
William Butler Yeats
“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”
Horace
“No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.”
William Saroyan
“The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are”
Josh Billings
