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Quotes About Provocation

Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.
~ Karen Hawkins
Touch me again, chakaar, and I'll ram this into your carotid artery." "I haven't got one." "Then I'll have to keep stabbing you until I find somewhere else that bleeds copiously.
~ Karen Traviss
have to hand it to you, Esganikan. We put our boots on Earth soil less than fifteen minutes ago, and you've already offered to kick off a world war and pissed over all the diplomatic channels. Not bad. Give us another hour, and we can start Armageddon.
~ Karen Traviss
They'll only get your goat if you show them where you keep your hay.
~ Karin Slaughter
My wife is for making babies. You're for fucking." The sting was unexpected. "That's an awful thing to say." "Trust me, one is a lot more fun than the other.
~ Karin Slaughter
He's like a spoon—always stirring things up.
~ Karin Slaughter
I've got my foot so far up your ass that you can taste my nail polish in the back of your throat.
~ Karin Slaughter
I've always wanted to kick a duck up the ass.
~ Karl Pilkington
I've always wanted to kick a duck up the arse.
~ Karl Pilkington
I never met a man I didn't want to fight.
~ Lyle Alzado
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
~ Peter Ustinov
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
~ Samuel Johnson
Many a man's tongue broke his nose.
~ Seumas MacManus
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.
~ Terry Pratchett
There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.
~ W. C. Fields
The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
~ Ilona Andrews
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.
~ Elvis Presley
The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.
~ Hillary Clinton
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
~ John Lennon
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
~ Seneca the Younger
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
~ Barry Hughart
I really like clever men who challenge you.
~ E. L. James