Mischief Quotes

215 quotes by 163 authors

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
I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself. — Eric Cantona
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too. — Anne Enright
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan
A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those… — Derrick Bell
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a… — Julian McMahon
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not… — Poul Anderson
We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no… — Fisher Ames
Writing is a form of mischief. — Stephen Sondheim
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. — Ouida
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. — Honore de Balzac
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. — Herman Melville
Baseball is religion without the mischief. — Thomas Boswell
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. — Edmund Burke
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and… — Joseph Hall
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the… — Jacob Burckhardt
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He… — Robert Greene
So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time… — Steve Schirripa
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the… — Albert Gallatin
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms. — James Anthony Froude

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