Quotes About Mischief

Actually, if there's one thing that goblins love," Skulduggery had said, "it's eating babies, but gold comes in a close second.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

If I could get hold of something nasty and drop it in the coffee urn, I could poison them all." "Too bad your personality's not water-soluble.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Everyone given the right opportunity will behave badly.

?stais ?aunums s?kas ar pašu nevain?g?ko.

Wakey Wakey My Little Tinker stud, I want to play with your magic Wand

Oi! Can't a poor Boggart have no peace?

Me and a few of my rowdy friends stole the wheels and tires off a brand-new limited-edition Lincoln Mark III that my manager, Merle Kilgore, had just bought. We left it up on blocks and then we sold his own wheels and tires back to him the next day.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

Well of blackness, all defiling, Full of flattery and reviling, Ah, what mischief hast thou wrought Out of what was airy thought, What beginnings and what ends, Making and dividing friends! Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Contents of an Ink Bottle

The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of inequity, and father of mischief. It has been the ruin of many worthy families, the loss of many a man's honor, and the cause of suicide. To all those who enter the list, it is equally fascinating. The successful gamester pushes his good fortune till it is overtaken by a reverse. The losing gamester, in hopes of retrieving past misfortunes, goes on from bad to worse."37 Washington

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

said the Knave, I didn't write it and they can't prove that I did; there's no name signed at the end.

One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it COULDN'T have had any hand in the mischief.

Evie replied with an eye-roll. "Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I'm gone?" "The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll." Sam smirked. "You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.

because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.