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

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

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

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

An easy going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

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

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

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.

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

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.