Top 70 Up To Mischief Quotes
#1. People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
Marshall McLuhan
#2. Because there are times when getting up to mischief isn't mischievous and other times when it is and you shouldn't do it.
Francois Lelord
#3. I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
Siouxsie Sioux
#4. Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.
Martin Amis
#5. A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance
Sandra Day O'Connor
#6. When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope
#7. 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
#8. Even now the wicked spirit lurked there, a glint of mischief in the darkness of heat and desire. It made her smile, and she brought her smile to his mouth and gave it to him. "Miss you," she whispered. "So much.
Loretta Chase
#9. Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.
Diego Maradona
#10. We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
Matthew Henry
#11. I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life.
Peggy Parish
#12. Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.
Bernard Cornwell
#13. These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.]
Horace
#14. Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial.
Katie Alender
#15. I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.
Michael J. Sullivan
#16. Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.
'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.
'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.
Jonathan Renshaw
#17. Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property ... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine
#18. The whole thing reeked of faerie mischief.
Screw you. Me and my magic hands will be fine, thank you very much.I'm staying right where I am.
Kiersten White
#19. In works of labour,
or of skill,
I would be busy, too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
#20. You long to be seen and approached and understood and to get into mischief, to stir everything up and see if it won't boil over and if God won't come down and grab you by the hair. Well, there is no God. You might as well be God.
Anne Rice
#21. The first to greet me was Robbie McNeill, who jumped up from his post at the helm and said, "Welcome aboard, Captain! I cannot tell you how happy I am to meet you!" His handsome Celtic face shone with mischief, and I felt the first gladdening of a spontaneous friendship.
Kate Mulgrew
#22. He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own.
- Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage
Tamora Pierce
#23. Eleanor laughs. Oh, I know that, silly. But it's easier not to let them realize it, because then they'd stop ignoring me, and they'd realize how much mischief I really get up to. Now, Lord Ackerly, I will have to ask you to stop stroking my hand, or my own shadow might replace your missing one.
Kiersten White
#24. My face grew hot. "We were discussing the investigation," I told him quickly. "He was here a quarter of an hour at the most."
Father smiled at me sadly. "My dear girl, if you din't know what mischief can be gotten up to in a quarter of an hour you are no child of mine.
Deanna Raybourn
#25. So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.
Steve Schirripa
#26. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it.
Diana Gabaldon
#27. ...up to no good - and pleased about it.
Dean Koontz
#28. Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at the same time anymore. - Rowie from Sister Mischief
Laura Goode
#29. A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.
Epictetus
#30. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
#32. Dork," I chastised affectionately. But his cheesy exclamation was something I was okay with. I smiled up at him. His hazels danced with mischief. "Okay," I agreed.
The mischief turned to triumph.
Damn those magic eyes!
Sarah Brocious
#33. So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
Diana Gabaldon
#34. The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
Tom Robbins
#35. What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic
of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever.
Robert Farrar Capon
#36. Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#37. Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
Diogenes
#38. Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
Chris Chocola
#39. Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
John Milton
#40. A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want a horse the rider was lost; for want of the rider the battle was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
#41. No politics, Murphy," Eve chided with a wag of her finger. "You're here to do a job." "Work." His furry mouth drooped. "How depressing. I'm a god. I should be having fun." "How about causing mischief?" His bearing straightened. "I'm good at doing that.
Eve Langlais
#42. He lounged on his side, bare-chested and barefooted, his jeans unbuttoned to show both the waistband of his underwear and the sleek lines of his ripped abs. His dark brown hair was sexily mussed and his emerald eyes were bright with mischief.
Sylvia Day
#43. You are my wickedest mischievous sisters, most beloved friends of my mind. - Esme from Sister Mischief
Laura Goode
#44. 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
#45. Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
William Vickrey
#46. All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham
#47. 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
#48. I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe ...
H.G.Wells
#49. May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode: But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!
William Shakespeare
#50. Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
Andrew Michael Ramsay
#51. Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
Edmund Burke
#52. Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
Plato
#53. The great move mountains;
the cowardly hide behind them.
The extraordinary walk on water;
the mediocre drown on land.
The excellent perform miracles;
the inferior carry out mischief.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her brain was so full of mischief that if the teacher could have once seen through that mask of perfection, she would have thrown her out in horror.
Katherine Paterson
#55. [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.
Louisa May Alcott
#56. The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
Antoine Rivarol
#57. He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.
Stephen King
#58. When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.
Robert A. Heinlein
#59. I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.
James Anthony Froude
#60. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.
Louise J. Kaplan
#61. The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.
Kenneth Rexroth
#62. conscious mind had enough to deal with right now without worrying about what mischief my subconscious was up to.
C. Greenwood
#63. Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.
T. Colin Campbell
#64. When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding
#65. Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
Benjamin Rush
#66. To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#67. Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
Jack Vance
#68. Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
Andrew Jackson
#69. If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#70. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
Peg Bracken
