Quotes About Innocence

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free.

Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face.

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)

There's one best thing about childhood our genuine smile...

Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.

Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.