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Quotes About Provocation

Most people have their buttons," Eustace continued.
~ James Purdy
You fucked-up hunk.
~ James Purdy
It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.
~ James Thurber
He will rattle your cage and then break your heart.
~ Jameson Currier
A soft answer turns away wrath and a gentle tongue is the tree of life, but a snarky Twitter Bible only leads to trouble.
~ Jana Riess
hands behind his head. He took another deep breath. The whore
~ Jane Smiley
Her idea was that there was no such thing as provocation, that no matter what she did, Pete simply should not hit her, and therefore if he did hit her he was entirely wrong, and therefore she was perfectly free to do whatever she wanted. The result was that I lived in fear for her. Once she said, "If it were you being hit, you wouldn't be afraid, either. You'd be mad, I promise.
~ Jane Smiley
Maybe next time we just open the door and start out with some bitch slapping.
~ Janet Evanovich
Bitch. Slut. Whore. Cunt. I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at cunt.
~ Janet Evanovich
Bitch, this is a gun...
~ Janet Evanovich
Do you know what I did? I urrrrrinated on the cake at my ex-wife's wedding. Pissssed all over the icing. Melvin Baylor - Seven Up
~ Janet Evanovich
You're scum, Morelli! You're scum!
~ Janet Evanovich
He grabbed me by my jacket lapels, pulled me to him, and kissed me. His tongue touched mine and I got a rush that was just a millimeter below climax. His hands slid inside my jacket and circled my waist. He was hard against me. And suddenly nothing mattered but a Ranger-induced orgasm. I wanted one. Now. The hell with Eddie DeChooch. One of these days he'd drive himself into a bridge abutment and that'd be the end of that.
~ Janet Evanovich
You take advantage. He don't stay at birthday party like good boy. He come to you for nicky nacky. You slut. I fix you so he see. I give you vordo." She waved her hand at me, she slapped her ass, and she wheeled around and left the coffee shop.
~ Janet Evanovich
How'd you get her to leave? Told her I was gonna spend the next twelve hours ruining you for all other men, and so she might as well go home. I could feel the heat rush to my face. Ranger gave me the wolf smile. I lied about it being tonight, he said.
~ Janet Evanovich
He lowered his mouth and kissed me. I know I should have kneed him in the groin, but the kiss was delicious. Joe Morelli still knew how to kiss.
~ Janet Evanovich
My eyes never got lower than your nipples. If it wasn't for the fact that Morelli would shoot me I would have taken you on his front lawn.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't think there's a degree in protesting." "There's a lot to learn," Lula said. "You gotta know about making signs and holding them up in the right fashion. And there's ways to be obnoxious and provoke a fight. Then you gotta shout slogans and such.
~ Janet Evanovich
Whether I am on a stage, behind a guitar or in front of a camera, I get paid to misbehave. Fortunately, misbehaviour is something I have unlimited supply of.
~ Vir Das
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
~ Nathan Fielder
If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.
~ Tucker Max
I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
~ Dawn Fraser
I don't know what first got me to attack melons. It's not like I ate a bad one and got an upset stomach. It just eventually seemed like the appropriate fruit.
~ Ricky Jay