Quotes About Innocence

Ô maudite enfance, qui ne veut pas mourir !

Nothing but a little savage...

Cuando a los sabios se les agota la sabiduría, conviene escuchar a los niños.

The shabbiest tuppeny doll will rejoice a baby's heart for half the year, but your mature gentleman will go yawning his head off at a five-hundred-franc gadget. And why? Because he has lost the soul of childhood.

In my experience it is always the most innocent-looking creatures that can cause you the worst damage.

Olvidándome de mi inminente peligro de ser educado, salí con Roger a cazar luciérnagas por entre las abundantes zarzas

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.

I had come to think that the Wampanoag, who dealt so kindly with their babes, were wiser than we in this. What profit was there in requiring little ones to behave like adults? Why bridle their spirits and struggle to break their God-given nature before they had the least understanding of what was wanted of them?

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

Like lambs to the slaughter.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.