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Dating Quotes
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Joseph Joubert
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"Choose in marriage only a woman who
you would choose as a friend if she were a man."
— Reinforces a truism I note
frequently in
my own professional practice: "Sex follows, it never leads."
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Mystery Date, Jonathan
Wacks |
 "We spend hours making ourselves look
completely different, and then we go into some dark place where we
really can't see each other anyway, and then we drink so we don't know
if the other person is really interesting or just seems interesting
'cause they're pretending to be interested in the person that we're
pretending to be," Geena Matthews (Teri Polo).
"Um, right. So I guess there's no
getting around it. We're gonna have to lie to each other," Tom McHugh
(Ethan Hawke).
— And it doesn't change when you get
older, and it doesn't change with where you do it.
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Marlene Dietrich
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"The average man is more interested
in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman — any woman —
with beautiful legs."
— There's a lot of candor that I miss
in society these days. (And as an aside: Why do I always associate
Marlene Dietrich with Timothy Dalton?)
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Lost In Space, Stephen
Hopkins
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"Listen doc, I'm, uh, I'm thinking
this is your basic 'kiss for good luck' situation. Wouldn't ya' think?"
Major Don West (Matt LeBlanc).
"Thinking! Not exactly your strong
suit, is it?" Dr Judy Robinson (Heather Graham).
— Put downs are always a danger sign
to me in a relationship. But I can forgive myself for being absolutely
enchanted by this banter. Oh, my: Joey Tribbiani and Felicity Shagwell.
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Casablanca, Michael
Curtiz
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"Where were you last night?" Yvonne
(Madeleine Le Beau).
"That's so long ago, I don't
remember," Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart).
"Will I see you tonight?"
"I never make plans that far ahead."
— In Dating for Dummies, Dr.
Joy Browne asserts that folks will tell us all we need to know about
them as a potential life partner, if only we choose to hear them.
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The Worst-Case Scenario
Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex, Joshua Piven, et al.
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"Defensive Dating
"How to Determine If Your Date is an
Ax Murderer
"How to Determine If Your Date Is
Married
"How to Determine the Gender of Your
Date
"How to Determine If Your Date Is a
Con Artist
"How to Fend Off an Obsessive Ex
"How to Fend Off a Pickup Artist
"How to Deal with a Date Who Moves
Too Fast...
"How to Escape from a Bad Date"
— From the Table of Contents (that
alone was enough for me to buy this book). I also have to confess that
this sort of deadpan humor reminds me of my sister, who used to feign
confusion at the folks claiming to have taken control of our television
set whenever the
Outer Limits would come on.
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