Quotes with innocence

  • Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
  • There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
  • He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
  • Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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  • Ernest Hemingway All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ouida To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Angela Carter Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Jeanette Winterson Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Daniel Day Lewis Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Albert Camus Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Charles James Fox He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Christopher Marlowe I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Robert Browning Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • A. E. Housman In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
    Poetic Justice Ch. 2 (1970)
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Graham Greene 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
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • William Blake Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Robert South Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Anatole France Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bai Ling Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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