"Naughtiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... want her not to do—to stand up at sitting-down time, and to sit down at stand-up time, for instance, or to wake up when she should fall asleep, or to crawl on the floor when she is wearing her best frock, and so on, and perhaps you put this down to naughtiness. But it is not; it simply means that she is doing as she has seen the fairies do; she begins by following their ways, and it takes about two years to get her into the human ways. Her fits of passion, ...
— Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie
... could be very naughty on such occasions, and do a vast amount of mischief. Flurry's break-outs, as I called them, were extremely tiresome, as Nurse Gill and I knew well. I was very disinclined to trust Dot in her company, for her naughtiness would infect him, and even the best of children can be troublesome sometimes. Flurry looked very sulky when I asked her what game they meant to play, and I augured badly from her toss of the head and brief replies. She was hugging ...
— Esther - A Book for Girls • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... clean. Come, lave yourself in me, and leave your naughtiness and your deceits and your black, black ...
— Girls of the Forest • L. T. Meade
... it is an adult, you will produce, not a self-reliant, free, fully matured human being, but a grown-up schoolboy or schoolgirl, capable of nothing in the way of original or independent action except outbursts of naughtiness in the women and blackguardism in the men. That is exactly what we get at present in our rich and consequently governing classes: they pass from juvenility to senility without ever touching maturity except in body. The classes ...
— A Treatise on Parents and Children • George Bernard Shaw
... than any sugar old man Bean, overborne with a sense of naughtiness and disobedience, like a child, carried home to his wife to ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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