First Sight Quotes
226 quotes by 193 authors
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
— Lucille Ball
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When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
— Thomas Boswell
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them…
— William Hazlitt
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
— John Stuart Mill
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I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if…
— Paul Dirac
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying…
— Kevin Costner
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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
— Christopher Marlowe
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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We…
— William Hazlitt
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Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I think pretty much all people who love each other had some kind of thing at first sight. I mean, there has to be some…
— Robert Pattinson
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Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting,…
— Nicolas Bouvier
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That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.
— Charles Boyer
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Believe in love at first sight.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us…
— Walter Pater
Who Wrote These First Sight Quotes
193 authors contributed a total of 226 First Sight Quotes, led by these top contributors: