(467 quotes found)
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
Ernest Hemingway
“The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Look like the innocent flowerBut be the serpent under it.”
William Shakespeare
“Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.”
Oscar Wilde
“The innocent is the person who explains nothing”
Albert Camus
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
“Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief n”
“Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
Anatole France
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso