It’s no surprise that quotes about dating fill our social feeds. After all, when it comes to relationships, navigating the awkward in-betweens and working through the ups and downs makes for great stories!

Whether it’s a twist of words from a famous philosopher or an inspiring reminder from your favorite celebrity about never settling for less, these 100 quotes about dating will celebrate all aspects of modern romance.

So without further ado, let’s get started!

100 Funny Quotes & Sayings About Dating

1. Dating is a battleground filled with deception and infidelity. – Andrew S. Trees
2. Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love. – Rashida Jones
3. Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating. – Mariska Hargitay
4. Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fools you. – Joey Adam
5. Internet dating is the fastest, most efficient way to gather a pool of qualified candidates. It could take you a lifetime to do the investigation that the computer comes up with within seconds. – Judsen Culbreth
6. Dating yourself will help you to connect with who you are. – Unknown
7. The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment. – Joshua Harris
8. You’d date yourself? “Hell ya.” She grinned. “I’m pretty awesome.” – J.S. Cooper
9. Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fools you. – Joey Adams
10. Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself. – Richelle E. Goodrich
11. Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity. – Mark Amend
12. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde   
13. In its purest form, dating is auditioning formatting (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part). – Joy Browne
14. Single is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize. – Mandy Hale
15. Love doesn’t make the world go ’round’; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Shannon L. Alder
16. Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll spend the rest of your life with. – Luigina Sgarro
17. Whenever I date a guy, I think, “Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?” – Rita Rudner
18. Spend time alone and often, touch base with your soul. – Nikki Rowe
19. Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen. – Henry Cloud
20. Loneliness is an opportunity to find yourself. In solitude, you are least alone. – Bruce Lee
21. Current mood: Looking up my ex on LinkedIn because I blocked him on Facebook. – Dana Schwartz
22. Date yourself. Take yourself out to eat. Don’t share your popcorn at the movies with anyone. Stroll around an art museum alone. Fall in love with canvases. Fall in love with yourself. – Abhysheq Shukla
23. A person’s readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment. – Myles Munroe
24. Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure. – Marilyn Monroe
25. All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. – Mae West
26. Dating an ex is the equivalent of failing a test you already had the answers to. – Kendrick Cole
27. It rather goes without saying that Katherine drank her coffee black. Katherines do, generally. They like their coffee like their ex-boyfriends: bitter. – John Green
28. I’m always looking for meaningful one-night stands. – Dudley Moore
29. Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. – Martha Beck
30.  Dating an ex is the equivalent of failing a test you already had the answers to. – Kendrick Cole
31. A man on a date wonders if he’ll get lucky. The woman already knows. – Monica Piper
32. Would I rather be feared or loved? Um… easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me. – Michael Scott
33. Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. – Martha Beck
34. A guy should make the woman he is dating feel different and more special than anyone else in his life. – Samantha Daniels
35. I’m dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it. – Garry Shandling
36. If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? – Lily Tomlin
37. A man on a date wonders if he’ll get lucky. The woman already knows. – Monica Piper
38. Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone. – Toni Braxton
39. My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away. – Jenny McCarthy
40. A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones. – Cher
41. I was dating a guy for a while because he told me he had an incurable disease. I didn’t realize it was stupidity. – Gracie Hart
42. I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he’d call. Dating is a very tricky business. – Cath Crowley 
43. I’ve been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog. – Wendy Liebman
44. Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore. – Lady Gaga
45. An online dating site for really old people is called Carbon Dating. – Unknown
46. To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads. – Foxy Brown
47. In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part). – Joy Browne
48. Regardless! Ex-boyfriends are off-limits to friends. That’s just, like, the rules of feminism. – Gretchen Wieners 
49. Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone. – Toni Braxton
50. This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that date always comes first. – Elizabeth Berg
51. To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads. – Foxy Brown
52. Dating is all about the chase. It’s fun! – Lauren Conrad
53. Dating is a give-and-take. If you only see it as Taking, you are not getting it. – Henry Cloud
54. Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot. – Lemmy
55. Spend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you. – Megan Mullally
56. Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on. – Ryan Gosling
57. Don’t look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food. – Karen Salmansohn
58. There’s nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone. – Lily James
59. Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are. – Will Ferrell
60. There’s nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone. – Lily James
61. Date someone because you already see a future, not because you want to see if you would work out. – Sarah Moores
62. I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget. – Kate Winslet
63. I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that. – Mitch Hedberg
64. Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, ‘I will never be whole again.’ – Adam Silvera
65. Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people. – Henry Cloud
66. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. – Mandy Hale
67. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. – Honore de Balzac
68. You were only meant to be a stepping stone on my journey across the sea. – Sara Secora
69. When it comes to dating, I’m straightforward and traditional with a twist. – Luke Pasqualino
70. It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone doesn’t mean they deserve it. – Steve Maraboli
71. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. – Thomas Fuller
72. A bond between souls is ancient – older than the planet. – Dianna Hardy
73. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren’t many job interviews where you’ll wind up naked. – Jerry Seinfeld
74. True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend. – Faye Hall
75. The real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. – Wayne Dyer
76. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. – Richard Bach
77. There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears. – Sylvia Plath
78. Online dating is just as murky and full of lemons as finding a used car in the classifieds. Once you learn the lingo, it’s easier to spot the models with high mileage and no warranty. – Laurie Perry
79. Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. – Natalie Portman
80. I’ve got mates who have got married through meeting on Internet dating sites, so it really can work out – even if sometimes it does go disastrously wrong. – Sheridan Smith
81. I went on a date recently and the guy took me horseback riding. That was kind of fun until we ran out of quarters. – Susie Loucks
82. I’ve got mates who have got married through meeting on Internet dating sites, so it really can work out – even if sometimes it does go disastrously wrong. – Sheridan Smith
83. Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. – Tim Allen
84. A guy should make the woman he is dating feel different and more special than anyone else in his life. – Samantha Daniels
85. I’m honest about the journey I’ve been on, so I definitely don’t take dating lightly anymore. – Demi Lovato
86. Dating is a give-and-take. If you only see it as “taking”, you are not getting it. – Henry Cloud
87. A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. – Billie Holiday
88. I went out to dinner with a Marine. He looked at me and said, ‘I could kill you in seven seconds.’ I go, I’ll just have toast then. – Margaret Smith
89. Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. – William Congreve
90. I don’t date my girlfriend because she’s a model. I date her because I love her. – Adam Levine
91. Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too. – Vanessa Hudgens
92. I hate first dates. I made the mistake of telling my date a lie about myself, and she caught me. I didn’t think she’d actually demand to see the bat cave. – Alex Reed
93. No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along. – -Joyce Brothers
94. Whenever I date a guy, I think, Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? – Rita Rudner
95. The best part about speed dating is having 8-10 new guys to drink with, and none of them are keeping track of how many drinks you’ve had. – Miss Moneypenny
96. My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away. – Jenny McCarthy
97. Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you’re settling. -Andre Breton
98. I don’t believe in casual dating; I would rather be in a proper relationship. – Vaani Kapoor
99. Dating is where you pretend you’re someone you’re not to impress someone you don’t know. – Melanie White
100. When a girl is single, everyone wants to find out who she is dating. – Ankita Lokhande

There is a lot of insight to be gained from the various quotes about dating. From them, we learn that it can be both an exciting and challenging process, with plenty of twists and turns expected along the way.

The most important thing to keep in mind however is to always be yourself, have self-awareness, and stay true to your own values. In doing so, you will increase your chances of finding true happiness with a romantic partner.

Dating doesn’t have to be a stressful experience and with these quotes, hope you can take away some positive advice on how to make it more enjoyable.

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