Quotes About Mischief

The superego, Freud wrote, is the "mischief maker which prevents the ego's coming to a friendly understanding with the instincts." It

Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.

Probably the most infamous story in our family: My oldest brother took a U-lock bike lock and locked my head to the bedpost. And he didn't just do this for a minute or two; he did this for a couple hours. I was maybe 8 or 9, and he was maybe 15.

Right ho, Jeeves.

It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people's jewellery.

Don't forget that in pushing policemen into duck ponds the follow through is everything.

A hoarse shout from within and a small china ornament whizzing past my head informed me that my old friend was at home.

Come on, he said. Bring the poker. I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it.

Planting his foot firmly on a golf-ball which the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, who had been practising putting in the corridor before retiring to bed, had left in his casual fashion just where the steps began, he took the entire staircase in one majestic, volplaning sweep. There were eleven stairs in all separating his landing from the landing below, and the only ones he hit were the third and tenth.

hoping that this was some jolly practical joke and that the real chap would shortly jump out from behind a chair and say "Boo!

What a gruesome mess you must have been at three,' said the Biscuit meditatively. 'You were bad enough at fourteen. At three you must have made strong men shudder.

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

Angel discovered an open suitcase and clothes tossed

Jump in the air! Fall in the dirt. Just make sure no one gets hurt! Go…Moose!

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

Education does not make a man good; it only makes him clever—usually for mischief. Instinct and feeling are more trustworthy than reason.

Well, Bud, he said, looking at me, I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?

a frank acknowledgment that there is not under our Constitution a judicial remedy for every political mischief, for every undesirable exercise of legislative power.

AidanIsAPoopyHead.

The two of them together in a place like Retribution Falls would result in alcoholic carnage, sure as bird shit on statues.

a big boy did it and ran away

She claims I've got a habit of finding dangerous situations and effortlessly making them worse.

You let the fairies fox you while the devil Does you.