Innocence Quotes

"Innocence is always unsuspicious."
-Thomas C. Haliburton

"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
-Robert Southey

"Your verdict will be "Guilty" or "Not Guilty." Your job is not to find innocence."
-Russell R. Leggett

"Mystery and innocence are not akin."
-Hosea Ballou

"Nature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance."
-William Blake

"The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."
-William Shakespeare

"But it comes off as innocence, which carries through the picture."
-Bob Newhart

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
-Robert Browning

"Guilt and innocence were not really at issue here. It's clear that he violated the statute."
-Jon Bruning

"He has maintained his innocence."
-Joe Warren

"I didn't do what they said I did ... I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence."
-Dick Morris

"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]."
-Warren E. Burger

"They could not refute his innocence."
-Mirjana Markovic

"If my innocence will cost me my life, so be it."
-Peter Fleming

"To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery."
-Ouida

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

"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."
-Louise Bogan

"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."
-Jessica Simpson

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
-Mignon McLaughlin

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
-A. E. Housman

"I don't think the presumption of innocence is dead or that it will be hard to find people who will indulge the defendants in this case."
-Robert Schuwerk

"Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind."
-John Shirley

"He maintains his innocence, so there is nothing I can say by way of mitigation."
-Bill Taylor

"He's been so focused on proving his innocence, and now he'll try to put his life back together."
-Scott Coffey

"We weren't there to judge guilt or innocence."
-Ana Verley

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

"It seems to be increasingly clear that there really is no political risk to take these concerns about innocence seriously."
-Richard Bonnie