innocent Quotes

“No one is safe from nature’s savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent.

“Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”

“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent, it was full of the twists and turns and defenses of an instinctive guile.”

“Scoundrels like Naoji are not the ones who perish. It is always the gentle, sweet and beautiful souls who meet such fates.”

“My face was burned with shame. Sitting there and not answering was like begging. And why should I beg? I had done nothing to anybody.”

″ ‘Why, David,’ said [Alan], ‘the innocent have aye a chance to get assoiled in court; but for the lad that shot the bullet, I think the best place for him will be the heather. Them that havenae dipped their hands in any little difficulty, should be very mindful of the case of them that have. And that is the good Christianity. For if it was the other way round about, and the lad whom I couldnae just clearly see had been in our shoes, and we in his (as might very well have been), I think we would be a good deal obliged to him oursel’s if he would draw the soldiers.’ ”

“Duke Russell is not guilty of the unspeakable crimes for which he was convicted; nonetheless, he is scheduled to be executed for them in one hour and forty-four minutes.”

one must take into consideration the facts which prove him innocent, especially as they are facts that cannot be denied.

but it seems to me that the innocent always suffer;