Mischief Quotes · Page 8

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for…

— John Green

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

— Matthew Henry

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

— Diana Gabaldon

“Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at…

— Laura Goode

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women…

— Swami Vivekananda

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

— Holly Black

Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need…

— Craig Ferguson

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's…

— John Flavel

There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the…

— Juan Manuel Fangio

The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great…

— John Locke

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all…

— Beatrice Wood

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and…

— Epictetus

A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has…

— John Locke

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that…

— Seneca the Younger

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds…

— Mark Twain

Or you can stay frigid," says WIll, his green eyes glinting with mischief. "You know. If you want." Christina throws a roll…

— Veronica Roth

“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from…

— Andrew Jackson

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

— Ilka Chase

[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

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

— Edward Gibbon

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full…

— Christopher Pike

“Don’t you worry, darlin’,” he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. “I like surprises”

— Lisa Daily

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief -…

— Jerry Brown

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

— Aeschylus

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“Everything has style, everything's a little bit larger than life and done with mischief”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.

— Mamnoon Hussain

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see,…

— Richard Cecil

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

— Phillip Lopate

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

— Alexander Pope

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

— James Anthony Froude

A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse…

— Benjamin Franklin

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really…

— Tom Robbins

I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

— Mary Archer