Taunt Quotes

#1. There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?

Leon Uris

#2. message was also personal - a taunt, a challenge, maybe even an explicit warning, broadcasting his achievements and plans. She had absolutely no doubt he meant the message

Dominic Selwood

#3. Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they're bigger and stronger each time they return. Stop shoving us depressives in that direction.

Northern Adams

#4. I can't curse those who don't believe as I do. I can't express hate or disdain for those who criticize what I hold dear. I can't outshout, bully, or taunt them. I can't exercise the liberty of free speech because I answer to a higher law.
I answer to the Word of God.

Lori Hatcher

#5. Crash smiled slowly. He didn't waste words while fighting. It was useless to taunt the dead.

T.L. Shreffler

#6. Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

Susan Orlean

#7. It turns out to be eminently useful to have a disgrace in your past; Salem endures not only as a metaphor but as a vaccine and a taunt. It glares at us when fear paralyzes reason, when we overreact or overcorrect, when we hunt down or deliver up the alien or seditious.

Stacy Schiff

#8. Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Dan Rather

#9. You can't fight destiny - taunt it, yes, but to fight it will only consume you and, in the end, destiny always wins.

Amelia Hutchins

#10. I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

Kola Boof

#11. I'd rather have the want of you The rich, elusive taunt of you

Annabel Joseph

#12. Right now I've got just two rules to live by.
Rule one: don't taunt elephants.
Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants.
-Sergeant Schlock

Howard Tayler

#13. I'm going to the library to taunt an animal dumber than me. Boys count.

Sara Wolf

#14. It is no wiser to taunt a man with words than to poke a wildcat with a stick.

Amanda Scott

#15. She's saying that's ok,
Hey baby, do what you want
I'll be your night lovin' thing
I'll be the freak you can taunt
And I don't care what you say
I want to go too far
I'll be your everything
If you make me a star ...
Dirty Diana

Michael Jackson

#16. There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world."
"There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground."
They taunt. They lie. They lie. THEY LIE.
I don't pretend to understand life. THEY LIE.

Nadege Richards

#17. Taunt a woman into figuring out how to torture you,

Laura Kaye

#18. Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

William Shakespeare

#19. He's a good man.He's staightforward and he knows exactly what he wants-"
"Yes. You must favor your mother."
She smiled reluctantly at the gentle taunt.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Anne Spencer

#21. There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring

Muhammad Ali

#22. Never taunt the devil, because the devil will show you what he had, pitchfork in hand. The devil was such a showboater, and Preacher was even worse.

V. Theia

#23. Oral traditions of the islanders are obsessed with cannibalism; the most inflammatory taunt that could be snarled at an enemy was The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth.

Jared Diamond

#24. Why do you still want to find her? The whispers taunt me. Why? Why?
It's a question they ask over and over again. And my answer is always the same. Because I decide when she can leave. Not her.

Marie Lu

#25. Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.

Robert Dallek

#26. Don't underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life's purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong.

Saad Salman

#27. That's what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.

Shannon Mullen

#28. Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

Saint Patrick

#29. Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!

Jonathan Maberry

#30. Aaron: Dude, one thing the guy said is you don't taunt voodoo.
Zak: Am I taunting?
Aaron: Dude, you're taunting the crap out of it!
Zak: I am sorry, I am not taunting you I am just talking ... Talking loudly.

Zak Bagans

#31. Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence.

Stephen Jay Gould

#32. Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

James A. Owen

#33. Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

William Shakespeare

#34. A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

P.G. Wodehouse

#35. As you say, nature taunts us with our weaknesses.
Myrina took Klito by the shoulders, 'It is not a taunt, but a challenge.

Anne Fortier

#36. You ever taunt me with Tasha again," she said in a harsh whisper when they broke the kiss to gasp for air, "and I will geld you."
Raphael winced. "That would take at least a day to repair. Are you sure you want to lose my ... attributes for that long?

Nalini Singh

#37. Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

Gelett Burgess

#38. AMONG THE DEMONS that taunt a writer before he can open a vein and write in his own blood are the devils that whisper: Are you brave enough to tell the truth?

Francine Prose

#39. And she laughed and she cried and she
tried to taunt him

Stevie Nicks

#40. He was sitting in front of the kitchen fire, and after Elizabeth's taunt he cocked up a hind leg and carefully, ostentatiously, groomed his private parts, a habit which he often used with great effect to annoy his women folk.

Olaf Stapledon

#41. Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you'll find them.

Sam Kean

#42. Those who scorn you taunt only themselves
I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth
by man I mean man and woman.

David Adams Richards

#43. These days I'm missing everything. I'm haunted by music; music I can hear, but never play again. Melodies that taunt me note by note, mocking me with the simple fact that they exist.

Katja Millay

#44. My hands felt electrically charged. My blood was ready to burst from my veins and my heart was beating a manic rhythm. I was frightened out of my wits but I was catching a familiar, addictive adrenaline wave. I was ready to taunt the reaper.

Bobby Adair

#45. A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Louis Nizer

#46. I'd been just like her, a youngster with something to say, a rebel through street art, leaving my mark on public buildings, to taunt the government and humor the public

Kenya Wright

#47. You look like a Greek God sent down by the immortal Zeus from Mount Olympus to taunt the rest of us inferior beings with your astonishing beauty, I said, which somehow in translation came out as "you look fine, why?

John Boyne

#48. It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.

Renee Ahdieh

#49. Vlad didn't show off his seething masculinity by wearing fewer clothes. Instead, he wore more to taunt people with what he didn't allow them to feast their eyes on.

Jeaniene Frost

#50. There is a certain type of person to whom a closed door is a challenge - a dare, a taunt, a glove thrown down - and I am one of them. A closed door is more than a mystery to be solved: It's an insult. A slap in the face.

Alan Bradley

#51. Because she's going to help you understand something. I'm not yours to taunt. Don't think I haven't noticed the way you try to manipulate me. I invented that game.

C.J. Roberts

#52. Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?

Richard Bachman

#53. Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Terry Pratchett

#54. Is that all you've got? A few tricks and quick feet? That's no way to enforce your bold tongue!

T.A. Miles

#55. Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done.

Suetonius

#56. Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him.
"You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

J.K. Rowling

#57. I often wonder, in a catfight, when one doesn't want to fight, if the other cat calls it a pussy.

Anthony Liccione

#58. I was just making lei out of these papers. Majority of them was trash, so I guess they need to join a blood relative.

Shyrill Silversong