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Innocence

«Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.»
Author: Louise Bogan (Critic, Poet) | About: Achievement, Innocence | Keywords: innocence
«A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men»
«Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends»
Author: Robert South | About: Innocence | Keywords: adorns, armor, defends, polished
«Innocence is always unsuspicious.»
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton (Writer) | About: Innocence | Keywords: unsuspicious
«Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].»
«Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing,»
«Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Innocence | Keywords: bell, leper, lepers, wandering
«Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed»
«Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.»
«Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance»
Author: Proverb | About: Ignorance, Innocence | Keywords: backyard, backyards, The Backyard

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