Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Innocent Quotes
Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the things below the surface. One cannot have both compassion and innocence.
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. (The Winter’s Tale)
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.