Innocent Quotes

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.

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

The thing is, you don’t have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That’s contradictory. If a person is innocent of crime, then he is not a suspect. (US Attorney General – in that position at the time)

He said: “I will make him as innocent as a virgin.” He thought a moment, and then said, “I will make him as innocent as an unborn virgin;” which covered the ground.

It is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.

The innocence of children is an adult myth. The reality is children’s extreme vulnerability; their storms of anger and irrationality and their dramatically imaginative lives, which conjure monsters and heroes and set them in motion. Those imaginations sometimes indulge crazy fantasies of revenge and annihilating indication. The vulnerability, anger and extreme fantasies of children have […]