Familiarity Quotes

Most popular familiarity quotes

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. - William Hazlitt quote.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt Characteristics in the Manner of la Rochefoucault’s Maxims

admiration

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. - George Sand quote.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

admiration

All objects lose by too familiar View,
When that great Charm is gone of being New. - John Dryden quote.
All objects lose by too familiar View,
When that great Charm is gone of being New.

charm

Familiarity can periodically provide people with an intrinsic sense of comfort, no matter how sick.

comfort

Familiarity breeds contentment. - George Ade quote.
Familiarity breeds contentment.
Familiarity breeds attempt.
Familiarity breeds contempt. - Aesop quote.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
Familiarity breeds consent. - Rita Mae Brown quote.
Familiarity breeds consent.
No man is a hero to his valet.

heroism

I would like to remind you that without a degree of familiarity we could not breed anything. - Winston Churchill quote.
I would like to remind you that without a degree of familiarity we could not breed anything.
Familiarity breeds, not contempt, but indifference.
It's so easy to cling to the familiar, even when it's deplorable.
Patricia McCairen Canyon Solitude: A Woman’s Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop.  The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it. - Anaïs Nin quote.
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop.  The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

words

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. - Ouida quote.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness.
Ouida Princess Napraxine
What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness. Familiarity can blind you too. - Robert M. Pirsig quote.
What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness. Familiarity can blind you too.
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 quote.
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.
Adolescents sometimes say words to the effect, "My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right.  Familiarity breeds inattention.
Familiarity breeds acquiescence as well as contempt. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.
Familiarity breeds acquiescence as well as contempt.
Familiarity breeds contempt—and children. - Mark Twain quote.
Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.  It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead quote.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.  It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.