Quotes About Mischief

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

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

The truth had been said but evil had been done.

To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.

The child probably overheard their voices; for, looking up to the window, with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. The sensitive clergyman shrunk, with nervous dread, from the light missile.

Instead of a reprimand for their previous negligence, the case seemed rather to require an eulogium on their praiseworthy caution after the mischief had happened; a grateful recognition of the promptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy.

You're going to pee in someone's suitcase? Do you have any other ideas? And suddenly Miracolina begins to snicker, then giggle, then giggle, then cackle uncontrollably. He's going to pee in someone's suitcase! Quiet! Do you want people on the bus to hear you? But Miracolina is beyond help. She's entered into a fullfledged laughter fit-the kind that leaves your stomach hurting. They're gonna open their suitcase, she blurts between bursts of glee, And their clothes'll be full of pee!

You wouldn't believe the scope for mischief that the Beast of Redmond unintentionally builds into its Office software by letting it execute macros that have unlimited access to the hardware. I remember a particular post-prandial PowerPoint presentation where I was one of only two survivors (and the other wasn't entirely human). However, this is the first time I've seen a Word document eat a man's soul.

Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger.

So Ah'm no evil, Ah'm just plain bad.

Whereas siblings tend to police you, cousins are your partners in crime.

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

Comedy comes from childhood only. The humour genes you are born with remain with you. I was always making mischief and making people laugh.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

The truth is, I admire his mischief, because if Suarez were to lose that, he would become an average player.

Sometimes I have this little girl in me who craves to do something mischievous.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

The bad boy: always more fun.

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

The uncle ignored Gracie's father. 'In any event,' he went on, 'when brewers combine hops with yeast and grain and water, and allow the mixture to ferment -- to rot -- it magically produces an elixir so gassy with blue-collar cheer, so regal with glints of gold, so titillating with potential mischief, so triumphantly refreshing, that it seizes the soul and thrusts it toward that ethereal plateau where, to paraphrase Baudelaire, all human whimsies float and merge.

Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!

Only thieves and children run.