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Quotes About Provocation

Beware of the fury of the patient man.
~ John Dryden
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
~ August Strindberg
You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!
~ Chris Tucker
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.
~ Edward Gibbon
I will hit a man with glasses.
~ Eminem
Ricky Hatton ain't nothing but a fat man. I'm going to punch him in his beer belly when I see him.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All good art is an indiscretion.
~ Tennessee Williams
I've read better fecal matter patterns on toilet paper.
~ Terry Price
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
~ Tertullian
Hello, sucker!
~ Texas Guinan
Shut me up, Turn me on, Shut me up,
~ The Strokes
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
~ This Is Spinal Tap
Now just vengeance is taken only for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.
~ John Waters
Negativity gets attention and gets clicks.
~ Redfoo
Let's face it - negativity sells records.
~ Taboo
Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.
~ Daniel Bryan
I'm a nice guy - until you get on my bad side.
~ Booker T
If you had no enemies, you had no fun.
~ Denis Leary
and as soon as i die i hope everyone who loved me learns the meaning of my death which is a simple lesson don't do what you do very well very well and enjoy it it scares white folk and makes black ones truly mad
~ Nikki Giovanni
I must have bitten Angus Young too, because his brother Malcolm walked up to me in a rage. I was wearing platform boots, and Malcolm's face was eye level with my belly button. You fucking bastard, he roared at my navel. You can bite my brother, fine! But if you fucking bite me, I'll bite your fucking nose off, you dog-faced faggot. I think I said something like you and what stepladder, because before I knew it, he was attacking me, climbing up my leg and clawing at my face like a crazed cat.
~ Nikki Sixx