“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
Variant: Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
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Christopher Marlowe55
English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593Related quotes
“None ever loved but at first sight they loved.”
George Chapman The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Compare: "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander (1598).
“There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There’s only sex at first sight.”
Julian May book The Many-Colored Land
The Many-Colored Land, chap. 9, p. 59
“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist
In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
“Is love at first sight truly possible?”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Jeremy Marsh, Prologue, p. 1
2000s, At First Sight (2005)
Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940) Austrian physician and psychologist
Source: The Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel (1950), p. 52
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 125