Mischief Quotes

Writing is a form of mischief.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.