“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 at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891Related quotes
“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)
“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?
“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).
“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
“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”
E.M. Forster
book
Howards End
Source: Howards End