Best 64 quotes in «mischief quotes» category

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One mischief always introduces another.

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

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

Obedience, responsibility, rules and safety are loyal, inseparable playmates. But Love is their wise mother, who knows there are times to break them up, at least for a bit, lest they get into some kind of arrogant, bullish, mischief or completely shut out their other siblings - joy, common sense, and compassion.

Thank God for a little holy disobedience.

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man . . .” Evie chanted as she played with Stephen in the Challons’ private railway carriage. They occupied one side of a deep upholstered settee, with Sebastian lounging in the other corner. The baby clapped his tiny hands along with his grandmother, his rapt gaze fastened on her face. “Make me a cake as fast as you can . . .” The nursery rhyme concluded, and Evie cheerfully began again. “Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake—” “My sweet,” Sebastian interrupted, “we’ve been involved in the manufacture of cakes ever since we set foot on the train. For my sanity, I beg you to choose another game.” “Stephen,” Evie asked her grandson, “do you want to play peekaboo?” “No,” came the baby’s grave answer. “Do you want to play ‘beckoning the chickens?’” “No.” Evie’s impish gaze flickered to her husband before she asked the child, “Do you want to play horsie with Gramps?” “Yes!” Sebastian grinned ruefully and reached for the boy. “I knew I should have kept quiet.” He sat Stephen on his knee and began to bounce him, making him squeal with delight.

Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.

That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another.

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.

...up to no good—and pleased about it.

Vengeance in bloom shone in her eyes and smiled on her lips.

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.

The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.

The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect for sailing toy boats, for skipping stones, and, in the event of failing inspiration, for falling into. Several of the trees appeared to have been specifically designed for climbing, and one huge, white old birch overhanging the stream promised the exhilarating combination of climbing a tree and falling into the water, all at one time.

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

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.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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