Best 18 quotes in «mischievous quotes» category

She could hardly believe that this truculent stranger was her brother. "Nick," she said, testing his name on her tongue. "Why did you give me those presents? It nearly drove me mad, wondering who had sent them. And I was terrified that Sir Ross would think I was carrying on with a secret lover." "Sorry," he muttered, flashing her a contrite smile. "I wanted to be a- a benefactor. To give you the things you deserve. I never meant for us to meet. But the need to see you became so strong that I couldn't bear it any longer." "And that is why you approached me at Silverhill Park?" He gave her the smile of a naughty schoolboy.

Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile.

Maintain an active mind: alert to the possibilities and mischievous in your pursuit of them.

That’s my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene, good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it’s only that I’m not caught enough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.

She was dark-haired, fierce; she wore two drop earrings made of crystal; her face was a pure oval tickled with dimples; her skin was golden; and her laugh was like a fire in the night. But on her face you could also read the concentration of a soul whose life is entirely inward, and a mischievous gravity which acquires a silver patina with age.

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

Yes. I gave an elf some hewlip soup and their head exploded. Ir was so much fun it was almost worth life imprisonment. I am saving my last leaf for someone special. I love seeing heads explode. I can't help it!' Nikolas felt fear prickle his skin. If even he sweetest-looking pixie could turn out to be a murderer, there really was no hope. 'Would you like to see my head explode?' Nikolas asked, although he was petrified of the answer. The Truth Pixie desperately tried to lie. 'Nnnnnnnnnnn...yes! I would like that so much!' The she looked guilty. 'Sorry,' she added, softly.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

Anger is a mischievous destroyer of you, for it contains the particles of revenge.

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked. 'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose. 'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

I felt mischievous, clever, triumphant, sad—though perhaps the dominant emotion was really this last. I felt like a mildly melancholic Mrs Machiavelli, already ashamed of her duplicity.