“None ever loved but at first sight they loved.”
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).
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English dramatist, poet, and translator 1559–1634Related quotes
“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?
“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
“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)
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
“Is love at first sight truly possible?”
Jeremy Marsh, Prologue, p. 1
2000s, At First Sight (2005)
Source: The Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel (1950), p. 52
“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”
Source: Howards End
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 125