First Sight Quotes

226 quotes by 193 authors

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
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. — Natalie Clifford Barney
It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes. — Lucille Ball
When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. ItÊ¹s obsession at first sight. — Thomas Boswell
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
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
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
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
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
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
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? — Christopher Marlowe
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
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
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
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
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
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of oneâ€™s usual setting,… — Nicolas Bouvier
That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool. — Charles Boyer
Believe in love at first sight. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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

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