Provocation Quotes
A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик
Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.20, Yale University Press
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 197
