Matchmaking Quotes

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“It was uncanny, really. The women were, like, four-hundred and fifty-five to none in matchmaking stats.”
― Kelly Moran, Mistletoe Magic

“Oh, but nonsense, she thought; William must marry Lily. They have so many things in common. Lily is so fond of flowers. They are both cold and aloof and rather self-sufficing. She must arrange for them to take a long walk together.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“You’re hardly likely to find a Chav mating with a lady of charm, beauty and sophistication, are you? The subsidised breeding farms they live in are unlikely to attract a lady who has cultivated proper deportment, and it’s doubtful she’ll be swayed by his shell suit, Burberry cap and Vauxhall Corsa”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“How sad that religious communities don’t put more effort into matchmaking, since the practice has divine origins. Sometimes outsiders know, for some rhyme or reason, that some individuals just rhyme, when they are together.
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 71”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material

“Sometimes a Cupid plays hard to catch
As he always got new couples to match.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes

“So what kind of woman are you looking for? Let me guess. Professional. Sophisticated. Classy. Intelligent. Basically, Lucia but younger, or do you like a little Mrs. Robinson between the sheets?" She took another bite of her hot dog. Was there any better food?
"My relationship with Lucia is strictly professional, but yes, I'd be interested in someone similar."
"So, you want a mini-me," she teased. "I mean a mini-you. Not me. Obviously. Lucia is pretty much the opposite of me, which is another reason I knew that job wouldn't work out."
"You have ketchup on your cheek." He took a napkin and gently dabbed it at the corner of her mouth.
Desire flooded her veins followed by a wave of desolation. She could easily fall for a man like Jay. Smart, handsome, ambitious, successful, and yet she sensed a longing in him, a secret Jay waiting to be free.
"Is it gone?" Her voice came out in a whisper.
He leaned in and studied her with a serious intensity that took her breath away. He was so close she could see the gentle dip of his chin, the dark stubble of his five-o'clock shadow even though it couldn't be much past four o'clock. His lips were firm and soft, his mouth the perfect size for kissing. She drew in his scent: pine and mountains and the rich, earthy scent of the soil she'd turned in the garden when her family was whole and she never had to wonder whose house she was in when she woke up in the morning.”
― Sara Desai, The Singles Table

“If I had thought I would ever be part of a conspiracy to matchmake for Wulfric, Aidan said sternly, opening the door to usher everyone out, I would have shot myself on some battlefield and blamed the French.”
― Mary Balogh, Slightly Dangerous

“He sighed deeply and began to read the letter one more time, hoping that somehow the words would change to indicate that is sister had fallen ill or her friend had decided to marry a rock of some sort.”
― I.H. Laking, The Vanishing Villa

“Well?" inquired Jane. "What do think?"
"I think," he said deliberately, "that if you have dragged me out to this inhospitable corner of the earth on nothing more than a bout of romantic whimsy, I shall be entirely unamused."
"My dear lord Vaughn, I never matchmake." Jane smiled to herself as though at a private memory. "Well, very rarely."
Vaughn arranged his eyebrows in their most forbidding position, the one that had sent a generation of valets scurrying for cover. "Don't think to number me among your exceptions."
"I wouldn't dare."
From the woman who had invaded Bonaparte's bedchamber to leave him a posy of pink carnations, that pledge was singularly unconvincing. "I believe there are very few things you wouldn't dare.”
― Lauren Willig, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

“No one knows love better than me.”
― Nash Summers, Love's Landscapes Anthology Volume 4

“She leaned against the wall and looked down at him, shaking her head. “Out in all hours and all weather, and he comes home to nothing!”

Joshua shrugged. He had a good idea where this was going.

“So where’s Mrs. Doctor? You need to get married!”
― Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“There’s gotta be guidelines of some kind if we're competing to get Zario the man of men.”
“Are we still talking about that?” I ask. “I thought we were talking about your ho ass.”
“This is beyond talk,” Ellington warns. “Your love life belongs to us. We're gonna be gay matchmakers!”
Sunji shakes his head. “That sounds wrong. We're matchmakers who are gay.”
― C.S.R. Calloway, Pretty Dudes: The Novel

“The human equivalent of a succulent would be best."
Jay leaned back in his chair and folded his arms across his chest. "You want to match me up with a succulent?"
"A human succulent. Prickly. Resilient. Able to survive hot climates, cold temperaments, and emotional drought. Sprinkle a few e-mails on her, maybe buy her a lunch, and that should keep her going through the long cold months."
"You think I'm hot," he said, his voice smug. For some reason her opinion mattered to him, all the negativity aside.”
― Sara Desai, The Singles Table

“Jay?"
"Yes, sweetheart?"
"I didn't find you a match."
"You found someone better," he said. "She brought light to my darkness and joy to my soul. She gave me love and laughter and happiness. She's perfect. And she's mine.”
― Sara Desai, The Singles Table

“Another socially important variable associated with mental ability is that of marriage, or more specifically that of who marries whom. A consistent finding in several studies of the characteristics of spouses is that there is a tendency for spouses to be similar in some—but not all—aspects of mental ability; in other words, some aspects of mental ability do show substantial “assortative mating.”

For example, in a study of married couples, Watson et al. (2004) examined spouses' scores on two mental ability tasks—a vocabulary test and a matrix reasoning test. Interestingly, even though vocabulary and matrix reasoning tend to be correlated with each other (both are strongly g-loaded tests), they revealed quite different results when correlations between spouses were considered. On the one hand, wives' and husbands' levels of vocabulary showed a fairly strong positive correlation, about .45.

But, on the other hand, wives' and husbands' levels of matrix reasoning were correlated only about .10. This result is consistent with previous findings, in which spouses have tended to show quite similar levels of verbal comprehension ability, but no particular similarity in mathematical reasoning ability (e.g., Botwin, Buss, & Shackelford, 1997).

Why should it be the case that spouses tend to be similar in verbal abilities, but not so similar in (equally g-loaded) nonverbal reasoning abilities? One likely explanation—as you might guess—is that two people will tend to have more rewarding conversations if they have similar levels of verbal ability, but that similar levels of nonverbal or mathematical reasoning ability are unlikely to contribute in an important way to any aspect of relationship quality.”
― Michael C. Ashton, Individual Differences and Personality

“Your father wants you to marry someone someday---the right someone. And my chamberlain, Mr. Fuchigami, all but said the same thing to me. Your dad and the Imperial Household Agency engineered this whole thing."
"Ehhh!" he says, eyes widening. "That makes total sense. A secret omiai."
I shake my head. "Sorry. What is an omiai?"
"Matchmaking," he says simply.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming

“But you succeeded in your assignment because you, my darling Gwendolyn, are my perfect match”
― Jen Turano, A Match in the Making

“Above all, what features make you fit?
How come you know it’s time to meet?
And when you make it finally – it’s lit!”
― Lana M. Rochel, Time to Meet: Lyrics

“I hired you for your resume as a bodyguard, not because of your matchmaking skills. So, just please, stop playing Cupid with Krav Maga skills.”
― Lumi, ... of Ravens and Sundowns

“Obviously, every evil plan needs a spreadsheet. That’s just science.”
― Amy Daws, Nine Month Contract