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50 Quotes For Those Moments You Want to Flat-Out Give Up On Men Entirely

Screw relationships, because single life is way better. 
Holly Riordan
July 20, 2016
“Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.”
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian
Tagged: Men, boys, Dating, beauty
“When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.”
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
Tagged: Crying, Tears, Men
“The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.”
— Carrie Underwood, The More Boys I Meet
Tagged: Dating, boys, Dogs
“I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.”
— Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Tagged: boys, Expectations, Crying
“I understood books. I did not understand boys.”
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx
Tagged: Books, boys, Confusion
“Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical.”
— Rachel Hill, A Girl's Guide to Guys: Meeting Them, Managing Them and All That Love Stuff
Tagged: boys, Dating, Relationships
“Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.”
— Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
Tagged: boys, Dating, Relationships
“I didn't answer, but, please—nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.”
— Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire
Tagged: boys, Confusion, obvious
“Boys are idiots. Girls are idiots, too, of course, but boys are a special kind of idiot.

A girl, for instance, will vote for a boy in an election, or go to a movie that's about a boy, or buy a book that features a boy hero (or villain). Boys are much less likely to return the favor. They can't wrap their feeble minds around the idea that this girl might have anything in common with them. It's like they can't recognize girls as human beings.”
— Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President
Tagged: boys, Girls, gender
“Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.”
— Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love
Tagged: Kissing, boys, Relationships
“Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”
— James Thurber, The Parents' Guide to Boys
Tagged: boys, Confusion, Understanding
“All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you - the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
— Emma Cline, The Girls
Tagged: boys, gender, Love, Be yourself
“Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.”
— Yvonne Collins, Boy v. Girl
Tagged: boys, Dating, male mind
“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
— Love Stinks
Tagged: girlfriends, boyfriends, soulmates
“I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?”
— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
Tagged: Settling, Dating, Standards
“I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own”
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Tagged: Sex, Intelligence, Dating
“Boys are different from girls. Girls like to be cozy all the time but boys don't. First of all, they like to get all close to you like a coiled-up rubber band, but after a while, they get fed up with being too coiled and need to stretch away to their full stretchiness. Then, after a bit of on-their-own strategy, they ping back to be close to you. So in conclusion on the boy front, you have to play hard to get and also let them be elastic bands.”
— Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
Tagged: hard to get, Dating, boys, Closeness
“Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them.”
— Charity Tahmaseb, The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading
Tagged: boys, Girls, Confusion, mixed signals
“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
— George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
Tagged: Men, stupidity, craziness, Women
“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.”
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
Tagged: Men, Boring, Life, Time
“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Jealousy, Men, Women
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Tagged: Men, Women, Love
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Tagged: Love, Men, Blame
“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
Tagged: hard to get, beauty, Sex
“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”
— Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
Tagged: strength, God, Dating
“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Tagged: Single, Dating, Goals
“Busy is another word for asshole. Asshole is another word for the guy you're dating.”
— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Tagged: Dating, asshole, Busy
“When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.”
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Tagged: husbands, boyfriends, bad boys
“Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.”
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Tagged: Dating, mature, Breakups
“There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I have done as recently as last week.”
— Hilary Winston, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me: And Other Stories I Shouldn't Share with Acquaintances, Coworkers, Taxi drivers, Assistants, Job Interviewers, Bikini Waxers, and Ex/Current/Future Boyfriends but Have
Tagged: Waiting, Lonely, Fear, pathetic