Quotes about Mischief

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

Light, old boy? said Beatrice, tilting her cigarette at him. He bent forward to her to light his cigarette at hers. She was winking at him as he did so. Miriam saw his eyes trembling with mischief, and his full, almost sensual mouth quivering. He was not himself, and she could not bear it. As he was now, she had no connection with him, she might as well not have existed. She saw the cigarette dancing on his full red lips. She hated his thick hair for being tumbled loose on his forehead.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say.

In fact, tell him I've diddled him, and perhaps somebody else.

Writing is a form of mischief.

Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.

In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.

Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate not head—clear across.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.