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There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.
Friedrich Nietzsche
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Oscar Wilde
We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.
Dylan Thomas, Letter, 1936; publ
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
Virginia Woolf
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike
She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth --or anywhere else.
Else Lanchester
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Sir Edward Coke
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
Jean Baudrillard
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
Ernest Hemingway
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida
Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
That phrase, loss of innocence, has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.
Christopher Hitchens
The virtues chose Modesty to be their queen. I did not know that I was a virtue, she said. Why did you not choose Innocence? Because of her ignorance, they replied. She knows nothing but that she is a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.
William Shakespeare
The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.
Source Unknown
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
