Quotes About Provocation

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

Fuck you, she said, giggling. And your little dog too.

My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword — that should tell you all you need to know.

She doesn't try to have dignity or refinement. She wants to affect men by what she says, not what she doesn't say.

You, sir, are a loathsome swine. Too damn ignorant to pour piss from a boot! Your odor offends me and my shell-like ear gapeth to hear thy screams of pain. I insist you avert your face and serve me a libation before I smite your sorry ass with the tip of my boot — you sniveling little cocksucker!

And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek.

Bueno, que me cuelguen si no es ese gordo maloliente, el cabrón Billy y toda la porquería. ¿Cómo estás, botellón de aceite de cocina barato? Acércate, que te daré una en los yarblocos, si es que los tienes, eunuco grasiento.

There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.

Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou

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.

Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like 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?

Violence makes violence

And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself

Had he yielded to the claim, the attack would have been as venomous, and very probably would have come from the same quarter

I would," continued the angry man. "There are times in which one is driven to regret that there has come an end to duelling, and there is left to one no immediate means of resenting an injury.

Tal vez hoy nos robes la vida, pero ten en cuenta lo siguiente: ¡nosotros nos llevaremos a cambio la tuya!

All writing is pigshit.

She bites God in the wrist]

I would have drawn and quartered him, and I hope you do, said Richard, his eyes sparkling.

Who's stupid now, Jimbo?!

Even if they do all the 'right' things interpersonally — even if they apply all the latest skills and techniques to their communications and tasks—it won't matter. People ultimately resent them and their tactics. And so they end up failing as leaders — failing because they provoke people to resist them.

Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and—necessarily—that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.

What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, faces slapping Left and right.

MEN Ah cursed drab, what have you brought this water for? WOMEN What is your fire for then, you smelly corpse? Yourself to burn?