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Quotes About Mischief

Not enough. Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.
~ Nora Roberts
Come on,let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.
~ Nora Roberts
caught him grinning at her. "Why do you purposely aggravate
~ Nora Roberts
Oh Mokona, you're such a tease! ~Fai D. Flowright
~ CLAMP
Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.
~ Clive Barker
the devil had long nimble fingers.
~ Colson Whitehead
No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.
~ Virgil
I think there must exist a special subversive group of pseudo-cupids - plump hairless little devils whom Satan commissions to make disgusting mischief in sacrosanct places.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Nate tried not to stare at Paul, but he kept thinking of the devilish teenager who'd clowned around on Papa's ships. He'd sneak vinegar into the men's canteens. He'd taught the ship's parrot to cuss in French. Nobody drove Papa and his men crazier — or made them laugh harder.
~ Lauren Tarshis
"The artful Dodger."
~ Charles Dickens
Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do'...He might have written with as much truth, 'Satan finds some mischief for busy hands too.' The busy people achieve their full share of mischief in the world, you may rely upon it. What have the people been about, who have been the busiest in getting money, and in getting power, this century or two? No mischief?
~ Charles Dickens
A boy with Somebody-else's pork pie! Stop him!
~ Charles Dickens
The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy!
~ Charles Dickens
I'm a bad girl — I read past my bedtime.
~ Internet meme, c. 2017
Then he removed a pick from his back pocket and, using a thick hairpin for a torsion bar, jiggled the dead bolt open. He whistled "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho" as he worked.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
She'd done exactly what she'd wanted to do. Making people unhappy was her way of having fun.
~ Gregg Olsen
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
~ Groucho Marx
I wish I'd been a Hell-raiser when I was 30 years old. I tried when I was 50 but I always got sleepy.
~ Groucho Marx
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
~ Groucho Marx
Haha! I'm gonna get ya! Teehee! Come here
~ Guy wearing faulty clothes
Zealous statesmen perhaps did more mischief than anything in the Galaxy--with the possible exception of procrastinating soldiers. That could indicate the fundamental difference between statecraft and war.
~ H. Beam Piper
His favourite ploy was to push his leg round the corner of the table and withdraw it repeatedly just as the cat pawed at it. Oscar was justifiably irritated by this teasing but showed his character by lying in wait for Tristan one night and biting him smartly in the ankle before he could start his tricks.
~ James Herriot
My Imperfection is, that I am up to no good.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
He was apparently a small man, according to Mr. Higgins, "with girly features, curly hair . . . and the heart of a rascal.
~ James McBride