Mischief Quotes

They say that spring Means just one thing To little lovebirds. We're not above birds, Lets misbehave.
Cole Porter

"Lets Misbehave" (2001)

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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.

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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.

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Let them call it mischief. When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.

Ben Jonson

— Ben Jonson, Catiline, Act III, scene 3.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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