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Provoking Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk…
- Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the…
- Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
- It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him…
- it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
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- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno
- There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the… — Mary J. Blige
- Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone. — Jo Brand
- To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the… — Richard Branson
- If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with… — Unknown Author
- If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is… — Sun Tzu
- Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but… — Unknown Author
- My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by… — Epicurus
- The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to… — Tom Peters
- Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize. — Mark Twain