Innocence Quotations

It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.-MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN, The Neurotic's Notebook

Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.-LEONARD F. PELTIER, Prison Writings

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty. -LEONARD F. PELTIER, Prison Writings

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.-JOSÉ BERGAMÍN, The Rocket and the Star

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.-OUIDA, Two Little Wooden Shoes

“The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.” -Charles de Lint (Celtic folk musician and story teller, b.1951)

“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time” -William Butler Yeats quotes (Irish prose Writer, Dramatist and Poet. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. 1865-1939)

“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end” -Lise Hand s

“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"” -Howard Ikemoto

“Innocence is always unsuspicious.” -Thomas C. Haliburton (Canadian Writer, 1796-1865)

“Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance” -Proverb

“Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends” -Robert South

“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round” -Elizabeth Bowen

“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 (American Philosopher and Psychologist, 1908-1970)

“Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.” -Louise Bogan (American Poet and Critic who served as poetry critic for The New Yorker from 1931 until 1969. 1897-1970)

“Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed” -May Sarton

“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.” -Daniel Defoe quotes

“Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].” -Warren E. Burger (Chief Justice, US Supreme Court)

“Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.” -Graham Greene quotes (English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, 1904-1991)

“Repentance is good, but innocence better” “What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?” -Nikita Khrushchev (First secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1894-1971)

“This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it." And he's shot down. That's not the American way of life. A man is innocent until he's proved guilty.” -Marguerite Oswald quotes

“When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover” -Michael Drayton

“Mystery and innocence are not akin” -Hosea Ballou

“To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.” -Giorgio de Chirico

“Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt” -François de la Rochefoucauld (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

“To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery” -Marie Louise De La Ramee quotes (English (pseudonym Ouida), 1839-1908)

“it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to -- to prove you're client's guilt.” -Anderson Cooper quotes

“Your verdict will be "Guilty" or "Not Guilty." Your job is not to find innocence.” -Russell R. Leggett

Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. Author: Haug