#innocence

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. ↗

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#good #good intentions #government #innocence #instead

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

— Ouida

#chicanery #innocence #kind #must #only

Love wasn't to be measured, much less restricted, by methodology. Love wasn't a method. Love was a faculty of the highest order, imagined or unimagined. Love wasn't an activity. Love was an experience. Love was the second coming of innocence. ↗

— Rob Inclan

#love #experience

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#i #i think #innocence #project #really

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#back #beauty #brought #child #children

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

— Nikita Khrushchev

#ask #being #children #dozen #got

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#exciting things #innocence #most #things #world

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#individualism #innocence #like #must #rather

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. ↗