to tease Quotes

“In bantering lies the key to human warmth.”

“Old Horton the Elephant thinks he’s a bird!”

“The pig mucked about. The dog teased the cat. The cat chased the rabbit. The rabbit hopped. The children squabbled. The boat tipped…and into the water they fell.”

“All the other tugboats made fun of Little Toot, calling him a silly tugboat who only knew how to play. Poor Little Toot. He felt ashamed and angry. As he sailed away, puffing a trail of smoke balls, the other boats just laughed at him.”

“Never again did he tease any little cat. He saved his rough tricks for the cats as big as he was. As for the little cats, he tried not to tease them but to please them. This was the beginning of his education.”

They tease and torment Elias all the time. But the day the gang tries to steal Elias’s pet mongoose is the day that Granny steps in...

“They still laughed at his ridiculous dignity; and they loved to tease him to see him stiffen with rage and hear his choky little growls; but they liked his independence and admired his tremendous pluck.”

“But all her young master wants to do is tease her—and he isn’t very good at remembering mealtime either. ”

“The other boys are superior and aloof and tease him relentlessly and bully him. Yet he doesn’t care.”

“Eloise, not surprisingly, torments her math tutor. She wastes the whole math session teasing him and refusing to answer his question.”

“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely and altogether. There now!”