Mischief Quotes

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

— Hesiod

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

— Anonymous

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

— Mary Oliver

“Give her hell from us, Peeves.”

— J.K. Rowling

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

— Juvenal

Writing is a form of mischief.

— Stephen Sondheim

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

— Benjamin Franklin

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

— Thomas Boswell

The world is round, so if you do something bad you had better duck.

— Aaliyah Hurley

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

— Gautama Buddha

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

— Roger Chamberlain

“Inchallah" (God willing.)- MISCHIEF IN FEZ”

— Eleanor Hoffman

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

— Mandell Creighton

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

— James Madison

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

— Mary Augusta Ward

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

— Kobe Bryant

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

— Julie Kagawa

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

— Edmund Burke

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Bill Vaughan

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

— Criss Jami

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

— Aaron Hill

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

— Honore de Balzac

“That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those…

— Matthew Tindal

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the…

— Andrew Jackson

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away…

— Hesiod

No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not…

— Francis Quarles

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She…

— Jane Austen

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses…

— Samuel Johnson

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief…

— Thomas Paine

Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of…

— Joseph Hall

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us,…

— Charles Spurgeon

In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was…

— Emilie Schindler

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great…

— Edmund Burke

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the…

— George Washington

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that…

— William Shakespeare

Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he…

— Gore Vidal

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther…

— John Milton