(467 quotes found)
“As long as there are innocent nickels to be made from the gullible, Python-starved public, I shall be out there dressed in silly frocks and singing filthy lyrics. I'm coming your way in search of ancient dollars.”
Eric Idle
“No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.”
William Saroyan
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
William Blackstone
“Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.”
Francois Rabelais
“Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance”
William Blake
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare
“The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are”
Josh Billings
“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“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
“An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.”
Benjamin Franklin