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Quotes About Mischief

Anything that makes your mother cry is fun.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.
~ Unknown
Right next to Thrifty's was an all-girls Catholic school, so we shimmied over the fence to break the liquor law with the Lord. I kept saying I didn't feel anything, but I could hardly get the words out, I was cracking up so hard.
~ Pamela Des Barres
Witches are bitches and they'll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give 'em half a chance." Elizaveta
~ Patricia Briggs
As for other mischief—my song has claimed this place for now. No evil may enter without invitation. They cannot come in." He glanced beyond us, behind Adam and me, toward the basement. "Not for a while.
~ Patricia Briggs
So go. Run with it. Make trouble.
~ Patrick Ness
Metete en lios
~ Patrick Ness
No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He is the Norse god of evil," I said. Paddy shrugged. "Technically, mischief. And people can change if we give them a chance.
~ Unknown
I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return.
~ Patti Smith
that he was a good boy trying to be bad.
~ Patti Smith
There's an imp inside me, and if I don't let him out to make some mischief now and then, the world just gets too damned dull. I hate feeling grumpy and bored. I'm an enthusiast, and the more dangerous my life becomes, the happier I am.
~ Paul Auster
I suspect this abbey, for all its sanctity, houses a veritable brew of malevolent, murderous mischief.
~ Unknown
Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger. Gutei heard about the boy's mischief. He seized him and cut off his finger. The boy cried and ran away. Gutei called and stopped him. When the boy turned his head to Gutei, Gutei raised up his own finger. In that instant the boy was enlightened.
~ Paul Reps
The weird part was that Gin kind of wanted the woman to suspect that something was going on. The best part of being up to no good is when people know you're up to no good, but can't do a thing about it.
~ Unknown
Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. —Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus
~ Unknown
There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.
~ Peter Høeg
Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?
~ Psalm 94:20
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
~ Isaiah 59:4