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Quotes About Guileless

With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power of government.
~ Sam Richardson
I was a shy kid but also very mischievous. Because I looked super innocent, no one could really call me out on my pranks.
~ K. L. Rahul
Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
~ Andrew Solomon
Innocence has nothing to dread.
~ Jean Racine
I was glad I didn't have to return his gaze. Did he know I knew? And if he knew, then what would I see if I did look in his eyes? Blame? Indignation? Or, God forbid, what I feared most: guileless devotion?
~ Khaled Hosseini
One of the benefits of looking innocent is you're able to get away with things. People almost never suspect you.
~ Jennifer Niven
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
~ Beilby Porteus
Children and fools cannot lie.
~ John Heywood
Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
~ Mark Rylance
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
~ Douglas Sirk
Truly, I live in dark times!The guileless word is folly. A smooth foreheadSuggests insensitivity. The man who laughsHas simply not yet hadThe terrible news.
~ Bertolt Brecht
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
I think there's an innocence to me.
~ Krista Allen
The artificial is always innocent.
~ Frank O'Hara
He did so innocently, without intention or design.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!
~ Luc de Clapiers
Living with my mother is like living with Winnie the Pooh. She has many adventures, getting herself into and out of trouble guilelessly, and all of these adventures are accompanied by a few lines of gentle philosophy. There's always a little bit more to learn every time you get your head stuck in a honey pot if you're my mother.
~ Miriam Toews
And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!
~ bushby anne s
Innocence is no earthly weapon.
~ Geoffrey Hill
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
~ Thornton Wilder
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
~ Toni Morrison
Nobody's that naive, she muttered. Nobody's that guileless. He's from Nebraska. Peabody scanned her pocket unit. From where? Nebraska. Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.
~ J.D. Robb