Provoked Quotes

• By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with a group of hard-faced Athenian nobles. I smiled unashamedly when she called me willful, wild, and ungrateful, which provoked her so much that she actually dared to declare, “My son, you must not marry this girl. I don’t care how beautiful she is, she’ll bring us nothing but grief and leave Athens in flames!

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Son
  • Patience
  • Conference

• As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Answer
  • Reports
  • General Rule

• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Believe
  • Laughter

• Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Provoked
  • Modern Society
  • Puritanism

• Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

  

  Beatrix Campbell
  • Enlightened
  • Engaged
  • Provoked

• The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

  

  William Cowper
  • Proud
  • Pride
  • Haughtiness

• To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their own salvation, so that their own sin does not get in the way. We can be saved from irritation and anger! Children can quickly sense if their parents are irritated, and then the children can be easily provoked and react stubbornly.

  

  Esther Smith
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Anger

• Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.

  

  Albert Martin
  • Ladies
  • Dressed
  • Provoked