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Quotes About Provocation

A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.
~ Gail Carriger
She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.
~ Garrison Keillor
You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
~ Lord Byron
The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!
~ Malcolm X
A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.
~ Matthew Diamond
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.
~ Neil Gaiman
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?
~ Norman Mailer
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.
~ Peter Andre
No man provokes me with impunity.
~ Ovid
I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.
~ Rachael Ray
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
~ Rex Stout
It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.
~ Robbie Williams
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.
~ Harold Nicolson
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
~ Henry Rollins
I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
~ Jim Goad
Stupid f***ing white man.
~ Jim Jarmusch
Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm, I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms. You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.
~ Sean Price
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
~ Carol Leifer
You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.
~ Kirsten Miller
Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
~ Iggy Pop
I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.
~ Richard Branson