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Quotes About Provocation

Acquit yourself as well as I have-bastard!
~ Roger Zelazny
I seek to harm myself, I expel myself from my paradise, busily provoking within myself the images (of jealousy, abandonment, humiliation) which can injure me; and I keep the wound open, I feed it with other images, until another wound appears and produces a diversion.
~ Roland Barthes
Wars oftener proceed from angry and perverse passions than from cool calculations of interest.
~ Ron Chernow
In the next poem, Hamilton has suddenly metamorphosed into a jaded rake, who begins with a shocking, Swiftian opening line: 'Celia's an artful little slut.
~ Ron Chernow
Mills lashed out at Barbot as "an impertinent puppy"—the sort of fighting words that prompted duels.
~ Ron Chernow
An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.
~ Lee Child
Never hit a woman unless she's trying to kill you.
~ Lee Child
I want you to swallow your tongue. I want you to just gulp it down, real sudden, like it was an oyster.
~ Lee Child
You're a big girl's blouse
~ Lee Child
He said, "Come back," a little louder. She straightened up. He got the impression she was about to puke. He didn't want that. Not all over his good clothes. But he licked her ear one more time
~ Lee Child
If you can't say Fuck you can't say, Fuck the government.
~ Lenny Bruce
You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
~ Lewis Carroll
You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
~ Libba Bray
Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything.
~ Libba Bray
A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie's knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the "disgrace of the young." She would not miss this place.
~ Libba Bray
Okay, you're right; she's so hot I could walk on three legs every time I see her. Now you're talkin'. I'll break your back and chop off your legs if you call her. That's my boy!
~ Linda Howard
She stormed into the room and stood at his bedside, her hands on her hips, her blue eyes shooting sparks. There was a silly grin on his face and he had the audacity to add insult to injury by following that with a yawn. "Deviant!" Emma hissed. "Jealous, Miss Emma?" "Hardly, Mr. Fairfax." "I think you are," he countered matter-of-factly. "You're breathing fire, and Callie's got to be the reason." Emma
~ Linda Lael Miller
You delight in making a fool of me," she accused in a furious whisper. "Not true," Caleb replied smoothly. "But I do like watching the sparks catch in your eyes when you realize you've just been had. May I walk you home, Miss Chalmers?" "Certainly not. In fact, I would deem it a great favor if you would simply stop bothering me, Major.
~ Linda Lael Miller
I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
~ Linus Torvalds
All I know in love is how to shock people. To briefly worship, and then to destroy and be destroyed.
~ Lisa Carver
I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.
~ Thom Yorke
perfidious society masturbators
~ Thomas Bernhard
To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.
~ Oscar Wilde