Innocence Quotes

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. (William Cullen Bryant)
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? View quote
Arthur Miller
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. View quote
John Updike
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. View quote
Graham Greene
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. View quote
Robert Browning
All things truly wicked start from innocence. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. View quote
A. E. Housman
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. (Anatole France)
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. View quote
Denis Diderot
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence Cannot imagine being under suspicion. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. View quote
Mary Astor
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. View quote
Michael Pollan
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. View quote
Henry Miller
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. View quote
John Dryden
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence. (Natalie Portman)
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Innocence has nothing to dread. View quote
Jean Racine
For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
Susan Hill