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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Malcolm Bradbury
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Bishop Robert South
Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake
If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
Publilius Syrus
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
Jean Racine
So justice while she winks at crimes,Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler (poet), Hudibras (
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
James Baldwin
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.
Graham Greene
