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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. - Honore de Balzac The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing. - Honore de Balzac To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. - William Blake, Auguries of Innocence E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live. - Robert Bloomfield, The Drunken Father (st. 18) When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. - Phyllis Bottome (a/k/a Phyllis Forbes-Dennis) Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Oh, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.] - Caroline Matilda, written on her prison window with her diamond ring We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. - William Cowper There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. - Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de Saint-Evremond O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties. - Henry Fielding Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. - Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault) As innocent as a new-laid egg. - Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, Engaged (act I) Innocence is ignorance. - Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Innocence is always unsuspicious. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears. - Lucy Hooper True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin; He's arm'd without that's innocent within. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 293) They that know no evil will suspect none. - Ben Jonson We become innocent when we are unfortunate. [Fr., On devient innocent quand on est malheureux.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Nymphes de Vaux Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. - David Herbert Lawrence "In innocence there is no strength against evil," said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it for good." - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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