Mischief Quotes
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
— Bill Vaughan
They like the making of mischief, mayhem, anarchy. They have traditionally lacked management skills.
— Salman Rushdie
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.
— Guy Maddin
...up to no good - and pleased about it.
— Dean Koontz
I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
— Mary Archer
Marry, this is miching mal hecho. It means mischief!
— William Shakespeare
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
— Catherynne M Valente
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
— William Cowper
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
— Antoine Rivarol
She who means no mischief does it all.
— Aaron Hill
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
— Honore De Balzac
This was the Goblin King. The abductor of maidens, the punisher of misdeeds, the Lord of Mischief and the Underground.
— S. Jae-Jones
Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
- and Stella had that kind of face. One that looked permanently guilty, as if some form of mischief was in the recent past, the near future, or both.
— Stuart Neville
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
— Seneca The Younger
She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.
— Michka Assayas
He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.
— William Camden
EITHER you have work or you have not. When you have to say, "Let us do something," then begins mischief. 172
— Rabindranath Tagore
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
— Matthew Henry
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
— Publilius Syrus
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
— William Vickrey
You heard Alanna. Someone's got to be on you at all times." His dark eyes glinted with a hot sort of mischief, his double entendre clear as day.
— Katherine McIntyre
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
— Andrew Michael Ramsay
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.
— James Anthony Froude
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
— Siouxsie Sioux
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
— J.K. Rowling
History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.
— Lowell P. Weicker Jr.
Give her hell from us, Peeves.
— J.K. Rowling
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men!
— William Shakespeare
Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial.
— Katie Alender
Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. - Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus
— Peter Godfrey-Smith
ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief,
— Tess Gerritsen
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
— Edmund Burke
One mistake is enough for all your life. So, where is the place of a mischief-maker?
— Behnam Rajabpoor
How bad? Like, Cassie bad, or your idea of mischief?
— Jennifer Foor
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— J.K. Rowling
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
— Alexander Pope
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
— Abigail Van Buren
It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
— Anatole France
The wishes we make in the dark have consequences, and the Lord of Mischief will call their reckoning
— S. Jae-Jones
Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief
— Laura Goode
Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief.
— Louisa May Alcott
Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
— William Blake
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.
— Gautama Buddha
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
— Harriet Martineau
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
— Aeschylus
Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.
— Bernard Cornwell
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
— Charles James
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.
— Diego Maradona
Knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here?
— Arthur Miller
This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable. - Esme from Sister Mischief
— Laura Goode
Everything has style, everything's a little bit larger than life and done with mischief
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
— George Orwell
My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.
— Stephen King
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
— Edward Gibbon
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
— Mary Augusta Ward
I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.
— Ilka Chase
They'd need no reason!" shouted Arbeely. "Why can't you understand? Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse!
— Helene Wecker
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
— Mandell Creighton
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
— Chris Chocola
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
— Henry Fielding
conscious mind had enough to deal with right now without worrying about what mischief my subconscious was up to.
— C. Greenwood
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. — William Shakespeare
