Source: Lolita
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander
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?
“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).
“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)
“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
“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
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
