Quotes About Provocation

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

He wants to make us think even when we don't feel like thinking.

I'd like to bite that lip.

But, if I am not the nigger, and if it's true that your invention reveals you, then who is the nigger? I am not the victim here….So I give you your problem back. You're the nigger, baby, it isn't me.

The Imp of the Perverse.

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

Art isn't something you marry. It's something you rape.

Serious critics, serious librarians, serious associate professors of English will if they read this work dislike it intensely; at least I hope so.

I piss on you from a considerable height.

Omnivorous red devils with a vicious bite, they have denuded the ground surrounding their hill, destroying everything green and living within a radius of ten feet. I cannot resist the impulse to shove my walking stick into the bowels of their hive and rowel things up. Don't actually care for ants. Neurotic little pismires. Compared to ants the hairy scorpion is a beast of charm, dignity and

Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.

Eris, the Goddess of Discord and sister of Ares, presides over separatio. It was she who came uninvited to a marriage on Olympus and flung into the midst of the gathering an apple inscribed "to the fairest." Thus she brought about the judgment of Paris. Comparisons are odious and comparison is what the golden apple provoked. To determine what is "more" and what is "most" requires and leads to judgments.

My karma ran over your dogma.

Be not wise in your own conceits.Recompense to no man evil for evil.

How great a matter a little fire kindleth!

You add insult to injury. (Injuriae Addis Contumeliam)

Nemo me impune lacessit [No one provokes me with impunity].

I said, smiling very wide and droogie: 'Well, if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.' And then we started.

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?

Antony was furious and responded with threats.