"Impishness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reason of years and merry living, so that what was going on inside might often be guessed without by the movement of the hangings, as in a puppet-show with worn canvas, he could be quiet enough when scheming any plot of particular neatness, which had less emotion than impishness in it. Such an innocent amusement ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... were only one aspect of the Philosophy of his whole life. Lamb was, in his life, a great epicurean philosopher, as, in all probability, many other "saints" have been. The things in him that fretted Carlyle, his fits of intoxication, his outbursts of capricious impishness, his perversity and his irony, were just as much part of the whole scheme as were his celibacy and his ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... said are so common; also that this should be a typical story, which would serve to illustrate the peculiar daw sentiment—the affectionate interest we take in him, not only in spite of his impudence and impishness and naughtiness, but also to some extent because of these same qualities, which find an echo in us. Accordingly I set myself to recall some of the latest anecdotes of this kind which I had heard, and selected the one which follows, not because it was ...
— Birds in Town and Village • W. H. Hudson |
