Provoke Quotes

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

There was one civil custom used in (and in few but) the English nation, which this gentleman did endeavour to abolish in this country; and that was, the usage of drinking to one another. For although by drinking to one another, no more is meant than an act of courtesie, when one going to drink, does invite another to do so too, for the same ends with himself; nevertheless the governour considered the impertinency and insignifcancy of this usage, as to any of those ends that are usually pretended for it ; and that indeed it ordinarily served for no ends at all, but only to provoke persons unto, unseasonable and perhaps unreasonable drinking, and at last produce that abominable health-drinking.

We can set the spark that lights the fire.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

My goal isn't to shock.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

I don't have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.

If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.

One sin another doth provoke.

I naturally want to be provocative.

I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody has been there to disturb them. People have been consoling them. I am not going to console anybody... Because the more you console them, the more retarded they remain. Shog them, hit them hard, give them challenge. That challenge will bring their full capacities to the climax.

I use humour a lot because humour is a great equaliser. Everyone laughs at the same things if you set them up properly, and that makes everybody equal. At the end of the day, I see my job as being there to entertain as well as inform and provoke.

...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

I can't titillate the audience just for the sake of doing it.

As a comedian, you can't tell people that they're wrong or that they're stupid.

I just like taunting people.

It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

I would do whatever the haters said they didn't like. They'd say, 'I don't like your lipstick,' so I'd put on more.

My colleagues, we're here to smoke the little bugger out.