Quotes About Provocation

Adrianne and Jo commenced a catfight. They yelled and screamed at each other. F-bombs here. "You bitch" there.

Don't threaten me, you piece of filth.

German aggression tended to backfire,

The young man waved back and sang out with a smile, "My gorge fills with hate for you, you ancient, decayed sack of manure!

Don't roach me, funker," she said. "And don't shirk off in your electro-steamer. This mopsy wants to poke." --Mack Reynolds, _Commune 2000 A.D._, 1974

Good. I wanted him angry. He would make mistakes that way.

I am no coward". My voice rose, and my skin went hoy. "Your father thinks you are" His words were deliberate, as if he were savoring them. "I heard him tell my father so." "He did not" But I knew he had.

Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile.

I fucked a sacred bull, all right? Now get the thread.

I leaned over and slapped his face sideways and backhanded it back to center position. Manners, I said.

Hold, are you mad? you damn'd confounded Dog, I am to rise, and speak the Epilogue.

What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

After a leisurely slide into second, Joe bounced to his feet, looked at Marichal, shrugged, smiled, and spread his arms as if to say, You throw at me, I'll make you pay.

But such a cheap shot from a sibling can never be left alone.

Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.

And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

Fucking men.

Pinche pendejo chimuelo!

Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!' Ignatius screamed savagely.

Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?

I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I'll pour water on her.

The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass.

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.