Innocence is no protection. [ Proverb ]
Innocence is always unsuspicious. [ Haliburton ]
Repentance is a second innocence. [ De Bonald ]
Innocence has a friend in heaven. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Mystery and innocence are not akin. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Diffidence is not always innocence. [ Mme. Necker ]
Hail mildly, pleasing solitude.
Companion of the wise and good,
But from whose holy, piercing eye,
The herds of fools and villains fly;
Oh! how I love with thee to walk,
And listen to thy whispered talk,
Which innocence and truth imparts,
And meets the most obdurate hearts. [ Thomson ]
Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [ Moliere ]
They that know no evil will suspect none. [ Ben Jonson ]
The most effective coquetry is innocence. [ Lamartine ]
The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. [ Cowper ]
What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted? [ Massinger ]
Penitence and innocence are near relations. [ Proverb ]
Who knows nothing base, fears nothing known. [ Owen Meredith ]
Sorrow for past ills, doth restore frail man
To his first innocence. [ Nabbs ]
Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
Of that serene companion - a good name.
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,
With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. [ Wordsworth ]
Innocence itself hath sometimes need of a mask. [ Proverb ]
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. [ Madame Necker ]
Calumny and conjecture may injure innocence itself. [ Proverb ]
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence. [ Thomas Paine ]
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The breast-plate of innocence is not always scandal proof. [ Proverb ]
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. [ Addison ]
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and it defends. [ South ]
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. [ Napoleon ]
In love affairs, from innocence to the fault, there is but a kiss. [ A. Second ]
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. [ Madame de Stael ]
The silence often of pure innocence persuades, when speaking fails. [ William Shakespeare ]
An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. [ Ben Jonson ]
Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! [ Shelley ]
Wisdom without innocence is knavery, innocence without wisdom is folly. [ Proverb ]
Whoever blushes is already guilty: true innocence is ashamed of nothing. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause. [ Southern ]
Sweet the young muse with love intense. Which smiles over sleeping innocence. [ Smart ]
His best companions innocence and health, and his best riches ignorance of wealth. [ Goldsmith ]
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. [ Bryant ]
Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears. [ Hooper ]
Prudery is the innocence of the vicious - external sanctity, assumed as a cover for internal laxity. [ Chatfield ]
The mind conscious of Innocence despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. [ St. Pierre ]
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. [ Joseph Addison ]
Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. [ Addison ]
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. [ Chamfort ]
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence. [ Abraham Coles ]
When we read that the lost sheep is preferred to the rest of the flock, we are tempted to think that penitence is preferable to innocence.
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice, and the security of innocence. [ Adam Smith ]
A babe in a 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. [ Tupper ]
Innocence and diligence are inseparable companions, and only those who are active in the discharge of their duties here below are blessed from on high. [ Magoon ]
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one is the age of innocence, the other of reason. [ Joubert ]
Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty! [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit secured him. Nature was his physician; and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality. [ South ]
The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. [ Beaconsfield ]
Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust. [ F. E. Abbot ]
Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]