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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym.

  Carmen Electra

  Home, Want, Easier

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• He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it.

  Lori Foster

  Used, Berserk, Spells

  FaceBook post by Lori Foster from Jul 28, 2014

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• What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Brother, Thinking

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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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• The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

  Anais Nin

  Strong, Cooking, Black

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• 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

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.145, Penguin

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