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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
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
-William Blake
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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
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So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
-Samuel Butler (poet)
Hudibras (canto II, pt. II, l. 1177)
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
-Albert Camus
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
-G. K. Chesterton
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
-Sir Edward Coke
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
-Anatole France
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
-Anatole France
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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
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All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
-Ernest Hemingway
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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
-Horace
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She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth --or anywhere else.
-Else Lanchester
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
-Mignon McLaughlin
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
-Ouida
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Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
-Jean Racine
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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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
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
-Bishop Robert South
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If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
-Publilius Syrus
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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; published in The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas, 1985.
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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
-Thomas Traherne
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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
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Books about Innocence
