The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Innocence: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live.— BLOOMFIELD — The Drunken Father. St. 18.
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!— MASSINGER — Maid of Honor. Act V. Sc. 2.
Oh, keep me innocent, make others great! Written on a window by CAROLINE MATILDA, Queen of Denmark. He's armed without that's innocent within.— POPE — Epistles of Horace. Ep. I. Bk. I. L. 94.
Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse. What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.— SENECA — De Ira. II. 27.
Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien à redouter. But innocence has nothing to dread.— RACINE — Phèdre. III. 6.
On devient innocent quand on est malheureux. We become innocent when we are unfortunate.— LA FONTAINE — Nymphes de Vaux.
O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres! O God, keep me innocent; make others great!— CAROLINE MATILDA — Scratched on a
window of the Castle Fredericksborg.

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