Top 100 Dating Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best dating quotes ever written, picked out of the full dating archive on QuoteForever. You will find Garry Shandling, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ginnifer Goodwin and Henry Cloud among them.

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1

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

2

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

3

There's time for a boyfriend in my life. But he would have to be understanding. He would have to understand that often I will be travelling and playing.

4

I was down in the sewer with some little lover.

5

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

6

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

7

Single by choice, just not my choice.

8

I don't date civilians. I don't even try. I'm totally out of the game of dating or trying to get a girlfriend or anything like that.

9

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

10

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick.

11

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

12

I knew dating the son of Satan would turn out badly

13

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

14

Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

15

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

16

A lot of people wouldn't feel miserable in this environment. A lot of people aren't dating my girlfriend.

17

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.

18

I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.

19

Encourage your children to come to you for counsel with their problems and questions by listening to them every day. Discuss with them such important matters as dating, sex, and other matters affecting their growth and development, and do it early enough so they will not obtain information from questionable sources.

20

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.

21

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

22

There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.

23

I'm dating a homeless woman. It was easier talking her into staying over.

24

Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.

25

I have such poor vision I can date anybody.

26

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

27

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

28

On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.

29

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

30

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.

31

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

32

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

33

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

34

I listen to old songs and remember exactly where I was living and where I recorded it and how I wrote it, the girl I was dating at the time or whatever.

35

If the guy you’re dating doesn’t seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start ‘figuring him out,’ please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find someone that is.

36

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

37

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.

38

People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.

39

Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.

40

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

41

I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.

42

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

43

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

44

The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

45

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

46

My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

47

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

48

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

49

Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.

50

Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.

51

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that.

52

What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

53

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.

54

I'll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.

55

I don't know about carry out, but you can carry me off to bed.

56

I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, "Marry him, you'll double your wardrobe."

57

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

58

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

59

I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.

60

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

61

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

62

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

63

Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

64

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

65

I'm not with anybody, I don't have time for dating. Not to get too personal, but it's weirdly harder to meet new people now. But for the first time in my life since I was a little kid, I'm not so concerned about it.

66

You would hope that coworkers who are dating can act professionally. But then again, some people can handle it, and some people can't. And those who can't kind of ruin it for the rest of us. Sometimes it's hard to be around an office relationship that went sour. When two actors have to be onscreen together, it can get really, really awful.

67

I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

68

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

69

I do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you're away a lot. If you're dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.

70

San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as - as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States.

71

I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.

72

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

73

Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.

74

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

75

I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.

76

I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

77

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

78

What does dating mean?

79

When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.

80

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

81

There's no point dating a guy who can't support a family.

82

I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.

83

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.

84

No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.

85

Dating is all about the chase. It's fun!

86

I don't have the best dating track record.

87

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

88

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

89

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

90

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

91

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

92

My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.

93

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

94

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.

95

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

96

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

97

Dating is horrible, it's awful. I don't get it. It's like you're standing there: 'Hi. Do you want to have sex and later wish you hadn't?' It's horrible. And it's awkward at 42 because I don't have the body or the drive. I just sit in the car and hope somebody gets in.

98

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

99

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

100

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.

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