(486 quotes found)
“Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends”
Robert South
“Ignorance is not innocence but sin”
Robert Browning
“Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”
Graham Greene
“It's the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon.”
Patricia Linden
“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot”
Allan Beck
“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.”
Daniel Defoe
“Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed”
May Sarton
“I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing,”
Abraham Maslow
“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”
Susan Sontag
