138 quotes found
“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”
“Soul of a victim tends to prove her innocence.”
“Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis.”
“Yet I believe, as I say, that it was precisely this underhand act that gave birth to her vitriol, for people are at their least forgiving when they themselves have been underhand, as though they wo...”
“His [Vyāsadeva's] son was a great devotee, an equibalanced monist, whose mind was always concentrated in monism. He was transcendental to mundane activities, but being unexposed, he appeared like a...”
“And who isn’t less innocent than they lead us to believe? That’s one of the fundamental truths about human nature.”
“People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it’s something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don’t change p...”
“The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.”
“You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply.”
“Things that are truly innocent don’t need to be labelled as such.”
“Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.”
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.”
“The flowered trim on the hems [of the dress] seemed superfluous, even frivolous, but at the same time it comforted her, as though the idea that a seamstress had thought to adorn clothing so innocen...”
“An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect’s point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!”
“The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.”
“Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”
“Had laws not been we never had been blam'd For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.”
“Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle bad is when they steal mine.”
