Mischief Quotes · Page 4

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

— Horace

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

— Anonymous

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just…

— Louisa May Alcott

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

— Kobe Bryant

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

— Ben Jonson

She who means no mischief does it all.

— Aaron Hill

I was invited by a publisher to write the text for Tantra.[1] Having done some research, what fascinated me was the evidence…

— Indra Sinha

“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach…

— Sigmund Freud

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

— Demosthenes

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

— Alexander Pope

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Ivan Panin

“The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect for sailing toy boats, for skipping…

— David Eddings

What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that…

— Louise J. Kaplan

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The…

— Jacob Burckhardt

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger,…

— Ryan Lochte

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

— Mary Baker Eddy

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

— Hesiod

One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no…

— James Howard Kunstler

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of…

— George Eliot

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

— Francis M. Lyman

Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we…

— Paul Harvey

Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes…

— George Washington