Tease Quotes

• The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

  Cindy Sherman

  Promise, Stories, Photographer

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• Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

  Tupac Shakur

  Hate, Women, Sound

  Song: I Get Around keep Ya Head Up, 1993

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• Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dog, Might, Bites

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.19, Penguin

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• I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Sex, Integrity

  Interview with Rose Apodaca, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 3, 2010.

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

  Charles Lamb

  Doe, Trumpets, Provoking

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.59

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• I'm such a tease
  And you're such a flirt...
  Routines and schedules
  Drug and kill you
  Kill you.

  Thom Yorke

  Flirting, Drug, Schedules

  "Song: 'Little by Little'". 2011.

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• As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

  Amy Adams

  People, Actresses, Unattractive

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 8, 2003.

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• 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

  Fashion, Mind, Desire

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• The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sports, Writing, Animal

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.267

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• 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

  Boys, Littles, Sneezing

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 6 (1865)

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• His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up the hem, teasing and stroking his thumb across my stomach. My breath came in a sharp intake of air.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Air, Two, Leaving

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies.

  Ricky Nelson

  Lying, Heart, Eye

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

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Might, Affection

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• You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Used, Ifs

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• Personally, I just tease people a lot.

  Alex Meraz

  People

  "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference the Twilight Saga: Eclipse". Press Conference, collider.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

  Greg Louganis

  Queens, Drama, Tease Me

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• They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Yoga, Reality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.190, Xist Publishing

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• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  Fay Wray

  Fun, Humor, Trying

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• We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

  David Suzuki

  Secret, Study

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• I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

  Ed Sheeran

  Thinking, Hair, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Moving, Blow, Intelligent

  Elizabeth Hoyt (2010). “The Ice Princess”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

  Alan Dundes

  Taken, Past, Trying

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• I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Believe, Trying, Three

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept going until he reached the bottom of the dress’s V-neck. I let out a small gasp, and he kissed all around the neckline, just enough to tease.

  Richelle Mead

  Nails, Dresses, Lips

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.185, Penguin

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• Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet,
  Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,
  And golden locks in breezy play,
  Half teasing and half tender, to repeat
  Her song of May.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Song, Sweet, Spring

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