“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
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American novelist, short story writer and poet 1849–1909Related quotes
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
“There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There’s only sex at first sight.”
The Many-Colored Land, chap. 9, p. 59
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington http://books.google.com/books?id=w648AAAAYAAJ&q="Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship"&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).
“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”
In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)