Familiarity Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

Children, Contempt, Breeds

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac

Marriage, Everything, Monster

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield

Good, Wife, Together

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt

May, Off, Though

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop

Contempt, Breeds

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Publilius Syrus

Contempt, Breeds

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle

Mystery, Contempt, Prestige

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand

Strangers, Admiration

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
Saskya Pandita

Great, Men, Often

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.
James Wolcott

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Christopher Walken

Business, Nothing, Wanted

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.
Jon Crosby

Nothing, Saying, Through

With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.
Jane Smiley

Best, Yourself, Around

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
Jennifer Tilly

Else, Everybody, Hollywood

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida

Beauty, Cruel, Ugliness

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
David Foster Wallace

Important, Find, Ourselves

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
William Bernbach

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
Michael Stipe

Country, Away, Reason

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian Greene

Best, Sometimes, Question

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.
Susie Bright

Good, Sex, Makes

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
Gavin Newsom

Great, Business, Real

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Boris Spassky

Knowledge, Literature, Chess

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
Scott Baio

Work, Family, Happy

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.
Lynn Margulis

Life, Respect, Far

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
Nobuo Uematsu

Music, Before, Heard

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Roy Hattersley

Evil, Acceptance, Contempt

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

May, Act, Needs

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
Campbell Scott

Spiritual, Trying, Find

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
Albert Claude

Work, Death, Mother

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
Chaka Khan

Philosophy, Contempt, Breeds

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