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at first sight
«He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.»
«Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Friendship,
Truth
| Keywords:
at first, at first sight, sight
«Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.»
Author: Leonardo DiCaprio
(Actor)
| About:
Love,
Romantic love
| Keywords:
at first sight, Keep the Faith, romantic
«Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
admired, at first, at first sight, a hundred, a hundred times, cast, circumstances, degree, expression, favorable, figure, haunted, hundred, meeting, perfection, realizing, sight, sight seeing, The Haunted, The Haunting
«Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days ?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
at first, at first sight, house, In the House, sight, very well
«A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, analysis, at first sight, commodity, niceties, nicety, subtleties, theological, trivial
«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 of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.»
«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 generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdity, at first sight, bargain, beforehand, black person, brown, imagined, locks, raven, ravens, struck, The Bargain, The Raven, The Ravens
