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Quotes About Mischief

Funny, how things became very simple once a man's course was decided. It was the aimlessness of choice that made mischief, among both sidhe and mortals.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
It's sort of like hazing, a fraternity prank. Sort of like that kind of fun.
~ Unknown
Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.
~ Lionel Shriver
Don't you worry, darlin'," he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. "I like surprises
~ Unknown
Such a shit, her big brother. He hid it with a mischievous veneer of dark humour, but she sometimes suspected that the darkness ran much deeper.
~ Lisa Jewell
Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
~ Lisa Kleypas
He looked natural and unrushed, and had obviously had a lot of experience at either chicanery or skulduggery, depending on which word was better suited for describing officially sanctioned mischief.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Midday and moonless, idling along among the families from Ohio and retired couples from Iowa and the businessmen from Brazil, instead of lurking in the shade of a night meant for mischief, and it all seems so improper, as if we have wandered into a church and found everyone naked.
~ Jeff Lindsay
But first we had to get on board Raul's yacht silently and alive, and to do that we had to approach it without being seen. So far, we had come up with no way to do that, other than go-take-a-look-and-see-what's-what. If it had been up to me, this casual plan of attack would not have been plan B—not even C. I don't like to improvise. When I slide out into the night for the purpose of making Mischief, I need to have a plan, and I need to stick with it. Beginning
~ Jeff Lindsay
During one session, the therapist returned from a trip to the rest room to find that another dog had dug a hole in a potted plant and buried Mancha.
~ Jennifer Coburn
Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted. To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Let's bomb Fishface's house!
~ Jerry Spinelli
When I was nine, I got my head stuck in a bucket trying to be Darth Vader.
~ Adam F. Goldberg
Dumb & Dumber' is one of my and Glock's favorite movies. We do stuff in real life that's just like they do in that movie.
~ Young Dolph
I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.
~ Nina Bawden
Chaos, panic and disorder- my work here is done
~ Unknown
The assembled crowd shrank back when the wicked fairy appeared, for it was immediately obvious to all that this was no ordinary fairy, but in fact the wicked Ratshade, who had placed third on Fairy God-Mouse Today's Most Wicked List for eleven years running.
~ Unknown
Once he pulled a girl's bra strap and let it snap in Raymond Elliott's study hall, which was "just about the most daring thing you could think of to do
~ Unknown
When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.
~ Danny Masterson
When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
~ Gavin DeGraw
Where was the Jew in him? You couldn't find it and yet you knew it was there. Where was the irrationality in him? Where was the crybaby in him? Where were the wayward temptations? No guile. No artifice. No mischief. All that he had eliminated to achieve his perfection. No striving, no ambivalence, no doubleness- just the style, the natural physical refinement of a star.
~ Philip Roth
That man tried to picka my frienda's pocketoni!
~ David Sedaris
I said that Santa no longer traffics in coal. Instead, if you're bad he comes to your house and steals things.
~ David Sedaris