Best 64 quotes in «mischief quotes» category

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.

Working for Master Mischief? This would be an act of sheer rebellion. Her parents would be livid if they ever found out. And it would be hilarious.

A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

You!' Skeet bellowed. When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

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.

I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

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.

Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.

Don't underestimate your own triumphs. Leave it to the enemy. # Krishn

Dork," I chastised affectionately. But his cheesy exclamation was something I was okay with. I smiled up at him. His hazels danced with mischief. "Okay," I agreed. The mischief turned to triumph. Damn those magic eyes!

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.

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.

Every last one of us has a spark of mischief in our eyes, and that spark of mischief is what connects us all. Not everybody has this. But we’re Carefree Scamps, all of us. And we make people laugh. These are the people whose friendships I value.

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.

Hermes, we love you," Hades said, "but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, and I haven't the slightest idea what you'd do with an immortality fruit, but I'm sure it would be both creative and disastrous.

Holy mischief twinkled in Ian's brown eyes.

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute. That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

In today's youth, morals and manners are replaced by money and mischiefs.

I promise I will repay you.” “Oh yeah?” she asked, looking at him, with his bare feet and plain, dark clothes. “With what?” The smile stayed on his lips. “Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of things long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach that from a pathographic elaboration of a great man one never obtains an understanding of his importance and his attainments, that it is therefore useless mischief to study in him things which could just as well be found in the first comer. However, this criticism is so clearly unjust that it can only be grasped when viewed as a pretext and a disguise for something. As a matter of fact pathography does not aim at making comprehensible the attainments of the great man; no one should really be blamed for not doing something which one never promised. The real motives for the opposition are quite different. One finds them when one bears in mind that biographers are fixed on their heroes in quite a peculiar manner. Frequently they take the hero as the object of study because, for reasons of their personal emotional life, they bear him a special affection from the very outset. They then devote themselves to a work of idealization which strives to enroll the great men among their infantile models, and to revive through him, as it were, the infantile conception of the father. For the sake of this wish they wipe out the individual features in his physiognomy, they rub out the traces of his life's struggle with inner and outer resistances, and do not tolerate in him anything of human weakness or imperfection; they then give us a cold, strange, ideal form instead of the man to whom we could feel distantly related. It is to be regretted that they do this, for they thereby sacrifice the truth to an illusion, and for the sake of their infantile phantasies they let slip the opportunity to penetrate into the most attractive secrets of human nature.

I suppose.” Mousefur sniffed. “No doubt it’ll be up to me to teach them manners. Kits nowadays don’t know how to show any respect.” Jayfeather’s whiskers twitched with amusement. “Don’t you believe it,” Purdy whispered. “She was teaching Lilykit and Seedkit how to reach under the wall of the warriors’ den and catch stray tails yesterday.