“Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?”
“Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.”
“Only you're right in saying she's too good an opinion of herself to think of you. The saucy jade! I should like to know where she'd find a better!”
“I hope this story provokes you as much as it provoked me to write it.”
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
“You mean you indulged in adultery and you dont' even have the benefit of a good saucy memory about it.”