Quotes About Innocence

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

I don't know man, I didn't do it.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

A child is an angel dependent on man

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.

Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward.

My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons.

When bad things happened to good people, or when innocent animals experienced human cruelty, it shook Steve to the core. His strong feelings demanded deep spiritual answers, and he searched for them all his life.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

I wanted happiness that wasn't innocence. I wanted romance that wasn't tragedy.

I have been her greatest foe, and she my biggest protector. Her heart is so pure, like a child's. She gives without thinking. She longs to have beautiful things, I see it in her eyes, but she always thinks of us first.

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; I was absolutely innocent. I saw my infirm old mother only twice a year; that was the extent of my connection with the outside world.

yet I think Our Lord made use of it to show me that a soul in the state of grace has nothing to fear from the devil, who is a coward, and will even fly from the gaze of a little child.

unchanging truth, that unless we become as little children in the doing of our Heavenly Father's Will, we cannot enter into our Eternal Home.

La niña es un verdadero diablillo, que viene a acariciarme deseándome la muerte: "¡Cómo me gustaría que te murieras, mamaíta...!" La riñen, y me dice: "¡Pero si es para que vayas al cielo! ¿No dices que tenemos que morirnos para ir allá?" Y cuando está con estos arrebatos de amor, desea también la muerte a su padre».