Dating Quotes

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.

~ Josh Mcdowell

If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow and bloom, but who would recognize the fragility of a new flower just starting to poke out of the ground.If I was lucky, he’d have a long cultivator.

~ Tracy H. Tucker

Dating meant nightclubs, heels, and black. It meant, No, thank you. Really, I'm full. It meant matching bras and underwear. Clothes with the word MICRO used to describe them.

~ Stephanie Klein

There were upsides to the whole mess. While Douglas was holding me hostage, I’d met a girl—I mean, screw dating websites and house parties; apparently all the really eligible ladies are being held in cages these days. I would have liked to see Brid fill out a dating questionnaire, though. What would she put? “Hi, my name is Bridin Blackthorn. I’m next in line to rule the local werewolf pack. I like long walks on the beach and destroying my enemies. I have four older brothers, so watch your step. We’ll be forming a queue to the left for potential suitors.”And, trust me, there would be a queue.

~ Lish Mcbride

Courting is a much sweeter term than 'dating'. It sounds like it has more intent, more like an agreement that two people enter into with a future in mind.

~ Kim Cattrall

I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ. 

~ Jane Green

Maybe some poor slob would take you to bed if you weren’t such a ballbuster.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I think I’m going to cut down on my dating,’ Annie said. ‘I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren’t always the answer.

~ Francine Pascal

Conflict of interest. I wanted to date somebody who was less screwed up than me, and she wasn't.

~ Jason Krumbine

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

~ Annette Curtis Klause

I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.

~ Margaret Way

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

~ David Levithan

In Bruce’s opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis match, where he had to wear down his opponent through expertise and sheer force of will, the better he liked it.

~ Francine Pascal

Check my riddle, and I’ll let you play my fiddle.

~ Zack Love

Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I will choose to stay in love with you through everything this life throws at us.

~ Liz Newman

Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

~ Ed Sheeran

I've never done online dating, but first of all, I have a book out called 'Make It Last Forever: The Do's and The Dont's,' which led me to do the online dating thing. A lot of people respect my relationship songs, so they can pretty much trust me.

~ Keith Sweat

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

~ Loretta Young

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

~ Clark Gable

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

~ Selena Gómez

Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'

~ Meghan Trainor

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

~ Rashida Jones

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

~ Jimmy Fallon

Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

~ Chris Pine

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

~ Chris Pine

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

~ Meg Cabot

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

~ Betty Dodson

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

~ Scott Adams

An important part of dating is communicating. We communicate by sharing our thoughts, ideas, and feelings. We enjoy being with someone when we have an easy time communicating or when we have a lot to talk about.

~ John Bytheway

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

~ Tim Allen

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

~ Natalie Portman

I always play women I would date.

~ Angelina Jolie

In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

~ Veronica Roth

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

~ William Shakespeare

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

~ Ami Bera

I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

~ Wale

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

~ Christina Hendricks

If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance.

~ Avan Jogia

I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well.

~ Jesse Metcalfe

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

~ Tim Berners-Lee