Quotes About Provocation

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

it seemed much more likely to scald and burn from sex and rage instead.

From the point of view of this relatively new and inchoate academic presence, then, the gay studies movement, what distinctive soundings are to be reached by posing the question our way—and staying for an answer? Let's see how it sounds. Has there ever been a gay Socrates? Has there ever been a gay Shakespeare? Has there ever been a gay Proust? Does the Pope wear a dress? If these questions startle, it is not least as tautologies.

Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best . . . offense. "You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were . . . rude.

If this idiot didn't watch his tone, I'd save the orthodox the trouble and run him through with a sword myself.

Say my name and his in the same breath. I dare you to say they taste the same.

It's those punk kids." Ruthie Zipperstein grimaced. "They wear those Nazi armbands and the leather pants. Anti-Semites, each and every one of them. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they were behind what happened at the mikvah.

don't think a rich Jew bitch like you would mind makin' us a little loan, would you? Plenty of bread where this came from. Just gotta spread those nice legs for that rich fucker husband of yours and your

Mierda! –dijo la Marquesa, poniendo las tetas sobre la mesa–. Con quién peleo, si sólo maricas veo...

Chorreando desde su puta frente la bala le tiñó de rojo el blanco de su puta cara.

offensive were made later

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Twig-minx!" it screamed. "scrap-brat!

Patience . . . speaks of a person's steadfastness under provocation . . .enduring ill-treatment without anger or thought of retaliation or revenge.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

DO NOT TOUCH ME YOU VILE THING!!!

Feelings flake off and fall in dust. The senses, vitrified, can no longer experience pleasure; they crack at the least provocation. Each of us, within, was as if devoured by a conflagration, and our hearts were no more than a pinch of ashes. Our souls were laid waste. For a long time now we had believed in nothing, not even in nothingness.

Take off your pants and Jacket

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

He's the kind of person that would inspire crazy people.