Quotes about Innocence

by admin
  1. Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. - Lyman Abbott, Author
    18-Dec-1835 - 22-Oct-1922
     
  2. Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. - Lyman Abbott, Author
    18-Dec-1835 - 22-Oct-1922
     
  3. America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training. - Paula Abdul, Musician
    19-Jun-1962
     
  4. Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. - Mary Astor, Actress
    03-May-1906 - 25-Sep-1987
     
  5. There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. - Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist
    29-Jul-1929 - 06-Mar-2007
     
  6. Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. - Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist
    29-Jul-1929 - 06-Mar-2007
     
  7. In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and - Stephen Bayley, Critic
    13-Oct-1951
     
  8. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. - Bo Bennett, Businessman
    16-Feb-1972
     
  9. Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. - Louise Bogan, Poet
    11-Aug-1897 - 04-Feb-1970
     
  10. Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. - Anita Brookner, Historian
    16-Jul-1938
     
  11. Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. - William C. Bryant, Poet
    03-Nov-1794
     
  12. Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. - Samuel Butler, Poet
    04-Dec-1835 - 18-Jun-1902
     
  13. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. - Albert Camus, Philosopher
    07-Nov-1913 - 04-Jan-1960
     
  14. Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. - Angela Carter, Novelist
    07-May-1940 - 16-Feb-1992
     
  15. Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. - Giorgio de Chirico, Artist
    10-Jul-1888 - 20-Nov-1978
     
  16. If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. - Ward Churchill, Educator
    02-Oct-1947
     
  17. Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. - Mason Cooley, Writer
     
  18. Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. - Mason Cooley, Writer
     
  19. Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path. - Mason Cooley, Writer
     
  20. I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. - Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
    06-Jun-1606 - 01-Oct-1684
     
  21. But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be. - David Cronenberg, Director
    15-Mar-1943
     
  22. Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. - Denis Diderot, Editor
    05-Oct-1713 - 31-Jul-1784
     
  23. The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. - Frederic William Farrar, theologian
     
  24. I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker. - Mike Figgis, Director
    28-Feb-1948
     
  25. Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. - Anatole France, Novelist
    16-Apr-1844 - 12-Oct-1924
     
  26. People are entitled to the presumption of innocence. - Barney Frank, Politician
    31-Mar-1940
  •