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Quotes About Teased

His myopic error gave new meaning to the phrase "a shot at greatness," and the others teased him about it for years. Of course, history might have been quite changed had the mistake been more serious. Perhaps most scandalous of all, they waited many years before informing the press.
~ Eric Metaxas
And who did you think I was, Diana Ingram? You were my fantasy lover, she said. And I realize with every ounce of foresight in my body that I will be teased about this for the rest of my life. By me? he said, looking down at her, one eyebrow raised. Me tease the woman I love? You malign me, Diana. I have one question, though. How do I compare with my competition?
~ Mary Balogh
It'll be an honour to serve you, sir, he added. In a French battalion? Gudin teased him. If you don't flog, sir, and you don't carve up pricks, then it'll be more than an honour.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Ellie had a feeling he thought she was exaggerating. "I am not jesting. Yesterday she presented me with two lists. The first consisted of chores I must perform in addition to those I already do." "What, did she have you cleaning out the chimney?" Charles teased. "Yes!" Ellie burst out. "Yes, and it was not a joke!"
~ Julia Quinn
He smiled wryly. "I'm not such a terrible person, you know." She sighed. "I know." Something about her resigned expression made him grin. "But maybe a little terrible?" he teased. She brightened, their return to levity obviously making her much more comfortable with the conversation. "Oh, for certain." "Good. I'd hate to be boring." -Anthony & Kate
~ Julia Quinn
In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.
~ Lily Cole
What are you doing?" Seth asked. He had only one chocolate rosebud left. She would need to hide her chocolates someplace more secure than the nightstand drawer. She held up a final page. The light revealed nothing. "Practicing for my audition at the insane asylum." "I bet you'll win first prize," he teased. "Unless they see your face," she retorted.
~ Brandon Mull
Mayhap you'd prefer to spend this eve with me at an inn, rather than going straight to my brother's," he suggested with a seductive smile. Chloe scowl deepened. "One eve is no' enough?" he teased, though his eyes were distant. "Greedy lass, would you be wishing a week?
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'll always be the baby in the family. I'm the youngest sister, but growing up with so many boys, it makes you tough. You get teased. There's no tiptoeing around each other. You say it the way it is; you're honest.
~ Nicola Peltz
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.
~ Jan de Bont
And nobody wanted to come to Bath, reminded Mother. It was going to be an awful, terrible, boring summer, she teased.
~ Carole Marsh
I've been a wrestling fan my whole life, and for so many years a lot of us have been, for lack of a better word, bullied. We've been teased, kidded, eyes rolled from our peers and family members. 'You watch wrestling?!?' I see my shows as a safe zone, a safe haven.
~ Jim Ross
The image a lot of people have of me as detached, impassive, or remote is a persona that comes from years of being teased for every feeling I ever expressed.
~ Kim Gordon
Right now, we as a team and myself, we set a standard, we kind of teased the city of New York a little bit. Because now everybody expects us to play at this level, this high level, that's where we hold ourselves accountable and push ourselves in this offseason to come back and be at that level or even better.
~ Carmelo Anthony
I am not going to say you are right because I could not take it if you smirked. I do not smirk, Vikirnoff claimed. Yes, you do. And I detest that after all these centuries, you are making sense. Frankly, its scary. It is only that you are not making sense sunce you acquired a lifemate. I hope that does not happen to all men. It would be a shame. Your sense of humor is not improving, Nicolae pointed out dryly. I do not have a sense of humor. Vikirnoff answered. I had not noticed, Nicolae teased.
~ Christine Feehan
You are a cunning devil, aren't you, Mikhail? But I think your cleverness may have gotten you into a bit of trouble." He watched her with hooded eyes. His teeth gleamed white in the firelight. "Did I happen to mention, Miss Whitney, that the last person impertinent enough to beat me at chess was thrown in the dungeon and tortured for thirty years?" "I believe that would have made you about two at the time," she teased, her eyes glued to the chessboard.
~ Christine Feehan
The demon of choice confronted her then, teased her, challenged her.
~ Nicholas Sparks
It will be her turn soon to be teased, said Miss Lucas. I am going to open the instrument, Eliza, and you know
~ Jane Austen
I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'
~ Gina Bellman
I'm easy to pick on because I'm a string bean.
~ David Hogg
With this generic view of mind changing as background, I teased out a number of crucial dimensions. These can serve as a checklist when one is considering candidates for mind changing:
~ Howard Gardner
As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.
~ Peter Morgan
In bed she was affectionate and even frolicsome—the previous night she had climbed over him with the grace of a sportive seal, scattering kisses over his chest and shoulders. He had not expected that of her, having known beautiful women in the past who invariably lay back passively to be worshiped. Instead, Annabelle had teased and caressed him...
~ Lisa Kleypas
And for another thing, though the imagination is easily teased by the desire for something we cannot possess, its wings are never clipped as they would be by a closer glimpse of reality, in these encounters where the charm of the passing beauty is generally in direct relation to their brevity.
~ Marcel Proust