Best 64 quotes in «mischief quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

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

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

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

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;

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.

Holy mischief twinkled in Ian's brown eyes.

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.

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.

Major Eele observed Studdy clumsily thinking. He saw an opportunity to create a pleasant mischief and did so immediately.

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.

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.

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