Quotes About Provocation

She did not mind if he observed her hands. She intended to scorn him. Her heavy arm lay negligently on the table. Her mouth was closed as if she were offended, and she kept her face slightly averted.

Fuck you, I said. Uh-oh. There's that angry word.

I celebrate art that shakes complacency by the shoulders and shouts, 'Wake up!

I'll just walk into Steve's office, pull down my pants and urinate on his desk. What could he say to that. It's guaranteed to work.

Violence breeds violence

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly see to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly seek to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us."

I don't give a fuck what you're trying to do or what you want. I'd send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.

I'm sprighted with a fool — Sprighted and anger'd worse.

But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution

Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.

You know what this is? - Nope - It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit.

I'm going to shit in your lungs for this.

Fuck you . . . you fucking body-dysmorphia porn-addict trust-fund-baby compulsive-masturbation motherfucker.

Se mi amaste, oggi vi ammazzereste tutti.

I'm clearly insane. I'm threatening your life with a toothbrush

Fuck America and get rich like astronauts.

And your issue is what? That I am revealing to people who piss their pants if they see a TV remote that they are in fact so damaged that they piss their pants if they see a TV remote? Eat shit and die.

Girls don't fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don't snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they've given up and try to lure someone else.

She's got ANTAGONIZE written all over her.

Cultural blackmail has gone on for decades, with the artist loudly blaspheming everything his patrons hold dear-while suckling at their teats.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.

Injury was aggravated by insult, and insult was embittered by pleasantry.