Quotes About Mischief

but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?

I rather like it, for it is honest, and no malice or mischief is hidden behind it. I always distrust those smooth, sweet voices; they are insincere. I like a full, clear tone; sharp, if you please, but decided and true.

All this, Man-cub, came of thy playing with the Bandar-log. True; it is true, said Mowgli sorrowfully. I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me.

Watch it, minx, he warned with a lift of his brow. If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my life, you'll force me to play Rockton and lock you up in my dark, forbidding manor while I have my wicked way with you. That sounds perfectly awful,she said gazing at the man she loved. How soon can we start?

They like the making of mischief, mayhem, anarchy. They have traditionally lacked management skills.

I think they are rising faster than they have any business, and that they would not be so black if they did not mean mischief.

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

The truth is, Helene was always the troublemaker. She had that bad-girl twinkle in her eye, and she always dragged Shelby along, whether it was the time they were caught shoplifting makeup at the Walt Whitman Mall or the time they took the Long Island Rail Road into Manhattan and didn't come home till two a.m.

A woman knows her children's friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are thinking, how they are feeling and, usually, what mischief they are plotting. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble. "Why?

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

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

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

Now, my dear Cap, if you don't look sharp your hour is come! Nothing on earth will save you, Cap, but your own wits! For if ever I saw mischief in any one's face, it is in that fellow's that is eating you up with his great eyes at the same time that he is laughing at you with his big mouth! Now Cap, my little man, be a woman!

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.

Tom Sawyer,

The Imp of the Perverse.

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Zane doubled over in his chair, still laughing hysterically. If he wasn't already dead, I would have killed him.

Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.

I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.

Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches.

What are little boys made of?Snips and snails, and puppy dogs' tails;That's what little boys are made of.

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.