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Quotes About Mischief

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
a saboteur of goodwill.
~ Leslie Charteris
Now, Mr. Shaughnessy, remember what happened the last time your wife got jealous of your flirting? She exchanged your denture cream for hemorrhoidal ointment.
~ Leslie Kelly
More lies. But what could you do? That's how you roll when you're a teenage magician!
~ Lev Grossman
Like wine, Provençal magic had its own distinctive terroir. It was rich and chaotic and romantic. It was a night-magic, confabulated out of moons and silver, wine and blood, knights and fairies, wind and rivers and forests. It concerned itself with good and evil but also with the vast intermediate realm in between, the realm of mischief.
~ Lev Grossman
We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We wish Fillory would last forever and not die. Done. Mischief managed." Eliot
~ Lev Grossman
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
~ Johnny Carson
In the e-filing system, the accountant has the user identity and password of each company. This would potentially allow a rogue accountant to play serious mischief with the accounts of an entity.
~ Sucheta Dalal
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
~ George Borrow
In the middle of the night, Keith Richards painted Capote's hotel room door with ketchup, thumbing his nose at the snooty Mr. Capote and the Princess with a not-so-veiled reference to In Cold Blood.
~ Jann S. Wenner
You're a liability and a wild card and trouble seems to follow you like a homesick spaniel.
~ Jasper Fforde
For God's sake, Mother," he said in an exasperated tone, "is there nothing dumb, daft or dangerous that you haven't tried at some point?
~ Jasper Fforde
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
~ Jean Cocteau
Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle
~ Bob Dylan
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
~ Jasper Fforde
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
~ Gore Vidal
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
~ Julian McMahon
Tommy Richard, who's your favorite little rascal Alfalfa or is it Spanky
~ Unknown
I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.
~ Tommy Hilfiger
Crees que eres muy pillo pero has perdido el librillo. ¿Estará hecho picadillo? ¿O lo tendrá un trastolillo?
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Be splendid tonight, be focused, have fun, make theater: That's our way of repudiating the bullies, the killjoys, the busybodies and blowhards. We know the secret of making art, while they only know the minor secret of making mischief. We proceed from joy; they only have their misery. -fax to Charlotte Rep, March 20, 1996
~ Tony Kushner
We know the secret of making art, while they only know hte minor secret of making mischief. We proceed from joy, they only have their misery.
~ Tony Kushner
Fly! ropade muminmamman. Polisen är här! Hon visste inte vad hennes mumintroll hade gjort men var alldeles säker på att hon gillade det.
~ Tove Jansson