Teases Quotes

#1. Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#2. The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

James Huneker

#3. All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life's next adventure.

Rob Brezsny

#4. A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.

Kathy Griffin

#5. Don't start a war you can't win, my friend. In the battle of teases, I would whip your slutty ass, you sex fiend.

R.K. Lilley

#6. Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it ...

Gurbaksh Chahal

#7. A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

Tessa Dare

#8. There was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others, as an insult.

Emily Bronte

#9. Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Agnes Repplier

#10. Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#11. EMMETT (on being a 'mama's boy'): Poppy teases me for being a mama's boy. She ain't wrong, but my ma's worth acting stupid over. She raised me in a rough world without losing her ability to be tender.

Bijou Hunter

#12. It's a beautiful fall day. Gentle wind teases stubborn autumn leaves. Some defy the gentle wind and sway. A taunting dance. Come with me and look at the magnificence of the last dance.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

#13. Speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases!

Lewis Carroll

#14. And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass! Let dreams pass! Let them die! Without you, what are they for? I always feel no more than half-way real 'til I hear you sing once more!

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#15. My lady teases me. You do not. Understood?

Lynn Kurland

#16. I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

Anne Lamott

#17. Teases don't deliver. I do. -Gideon Cross

Sylvia Day

#18. I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.

David Levithan

#19. Can I get you some refreshment?" Angela asked. "Ambrosia perhaps?" Was she kidding? He hadn't had ambrosia in several millennia, and where would they have procured it, anyway? "My daughter teases. We weren't expecting you so soon. It hasn't yet fermented properly.

L.J. Vickery

#20. The power of a kiss is a heady pleasure, one that teases the mind, warms the heart, lifts the soul and tempts the body.

Charlotte Featherstone

#21. My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'

Christina Ricci

#22. We shall have long meetings where Kiggs agonizes and Glisselda teases him. That's the pattern so far.

Rachel Hartman

#23. Changmin teases me so much ... it's to the point that it feels strange when he doesn't.

Junsu

#24. The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Charles Lamb

#25. Inviting fellow human beings to experience beauty teases their souls and allows them, albeit briefly, to see a picture of how things ought to be.

Gabe Lyons

#26. I'm going to teach you to ride Princess."
"Princess?"
"My motorcycle."
I laugh. "You named your motorcycle Princess?"
"What can I say?" he teases. "I call all my favorite things princess.

Tera Lynn Childs

#27. The blue jay playing around the cabin means you are going to have plenty of good times and fun. The blue jay is a clown and bounces on the ends of branches and turns flips and teases other birds.

Forrest Carter

#28. All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

Charles Baudelaire

#29. Maybe God is the ultimate bully who teases us with life, then pulls it out of reach. Maybe there's nothing I can do but let life curl up and disappear like an old photograph.
Or maybe I can get it back. Maybe imagination gets it back. Perhaps play lets it breath again.

Alan Alda

#30. The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#31. My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

Loni Anderson

#32. Good Lord," I whisper at my thoughts, barely stifling a shiver. "Kissing me is similar to a religious experience, or so I've been told." Gleaming green eyes meet mine as he teases me.

Anonymous

#33. Veneration. It's as if he's worshipping me. He teases me

E.L. James

#34. Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

Randy West

#35. Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often did I have to learn that? The lessons were painful.

Ruth Ozeki

#36. Anna: You really think he likes me?
Rashmi: Anna. He teases you all the time. It's classic boy-pulling-girl's-pigtail syndrome. And whenever anyone else even remotely does it, he always takes your side and tells them to shove it.

Stephanie Perkins

#37. You know, without your cloak of burning rage, you almost look like a girl," he teases with a wink at me.

Kayla Krantz

#38. I know all about insanity. It's not that bad once you beat up everyone who teases you about it.

Eve Langlais