Innocence Quotes

All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning Hamilton

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that’s not really there.
Donna Tartt

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
Louis Kronenberger

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Bishop Robert South

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France

Every life is march from innocence,through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Mason Cooley

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats

It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
Mignon McLaughlin

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving Howe

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance.
A proverb

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
José Bergamín

We each begin in innocence.We all become guilty.
Leonard F. Peltier