Sunday, October 12, 2008

Innocence

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

Honore de Balzac


Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton


There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage.

Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de Saint-Evremond


It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Anatole France


There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Jean Baudrillard


All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Moveable Feast