Mischief Quotes
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More Mischief Quotes
He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.
— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon; on John Hampden, History of the Rebellion. Vol. iii, Book vii. Section 84. Compare: "In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute", Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xlviii.
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Lytton— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It? Bk. III, Heading to Ch. XVII.
Let them call it mischief. When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.
Ben Jonson— Ben Jonson, Catiline, Act III, scene 3.
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto III, stanza 125.
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, scene 1, line 35.
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
— Lord Hardwicke, L.C., Walton v. Tryon (1753), 1 Dick. 245.
The policy of the law of England, and indeed the true principles of all government, will rather suffer many private inconveniences, than introduce one public mischief.
— Wright, J., Sir John Wedderburn's Case (1746), Foster's Cr. Cas. 29.
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
— William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, L.C., Devit v. College of Dublin (1720), Gilbert Eq. Ca. 249.
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the secret password to unlock the Marauder's Map of Hogwarts, first uttered by George Weasley, Chapter 10 (1999).
