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Innocence: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

The trust I have is in mine innocence. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4. Unstained thoughts do seldom dream of evil. Poems. Pure innocence hath never practis'd how To cloak offences. Poems I humbly thank your highness: And am right glad to catch this good occasion Most thoroughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff And corn shall fly asunder; for, I know, There's none stands under more calumnious tongues— Than I myself.

We do not know How he may soften at the sight o' the child; The silence often of pure innocence T Persuades, when speaking fails.— W.T. ii. 2

Did I not tell you she was innocent?— M. A. v. 4.

I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions start Into her face; a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness bear away those blushes; And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire, To burn the errors that these princes hold Against her maiden truth.— M. A. iv. 1

If powers divine Behold our human actions, (as they do) I doubt not then, but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny— W.T. iii. 2.

Tremble at patience.

Itself, Not Exempt From Misfortune

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.