Words matter. These are the best Mischief Quotes from famous people such as D. H. Lawrence, Frederick Douglass, William Blackstone, Gore Vidal, Robert Baden-Powell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
From the boys’ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He’s just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don’t see anything twisted about it. It’s sort of ridiculous and wacky. It’s sort of fun.
The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.
When you write about sports, you’re allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.
Top Gear’ is the thing that helped shape my life with cars, my perception of cars and my obsession with cars, and I’m raring to give it a go. I’m also quite gobby and happy to get into trouble, so I’m hoping I can underpin the programme with journalistic credibility but still cause some mischief.
When I was 15, Aston Villa offered me a trial for four days. In those days, I was more interested in making mischief and I didn’t even turn up until the fourth day and then they sent me packing because they said I wasn’t dedicated enough.
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief – to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t’will be virtue.
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children – therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.
Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
Comedy comes from childhood only. The humour genes you are born with remain with you. I was always making mischief and making people laugh.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn’t really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
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.
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she’s really attractive.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
