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Quotes About Provocation

But he who would provoke me should remember That those who rifle wasps' nests will be stung!
~ Aristophanes
He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Every day is kill-the-Americans day here.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
remember the metallic sound and taste of all of it. And the outrage.
~ Shirley Jackson
She is hysterical," said Mrs. Halloran. "Slap her quite firmly in the face.
~ Shirley Jackson
I would rather cover my face in fire ants." "Oh
~ Shirley Jump
Second, I wish all my enemies would burst from the bellyful your last letter gave me.
~ Sholom Aleichem
She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.
~ Sidney Sheldon
The wish to please, to charm—the desire to provoke desire—runs deep in me and seems to have been there from the beginning.
~ Sigrid Nunez
LOL-inspiring thought: Wouldn't it
~ Sigrid Nunez
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
~ Sophocles
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
~ Sophocles
I think you're insane.
~ Sophocles
Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the woman off. With both hands.
~ J. Lynn
What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.
~ Jennifer Egan
Im not angry. I have never been angry in my entire life. The only thing that makes me angry is people videorecording me. Making me mad. NOW TURN IT OFF!
~ Joe Jonas
I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.
~ Nuno Roque
It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
~ John Milton
There were numerous physical combats between husbands and wives, and not always the husbands that matched the wives. Kitty Hofman, for instance, had been given a black eye by Carter Davis when she kicked him in the groin for dunking her head in a punch bowl for calling him a son of a bitch for telling her she looked like something the cat dragged in. And so on.
~ John O'Hara
When composing a story, withhold the essential information—do not mention whatever it is that causes the characters to act as they do.
~ John O'Hara
CAIUS MARCIUS: GO FUCK YOURSELF
~ John Osborne
IN the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt….
~ John Reed
We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.
~ John Scalzi