Familiarity Quotes
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Our love was new, and then but in the spring, When I was wont to greet it with my lays, As Philomel in summer's front doth sing And stops her pipe in growth of riper days; Not that the summer is less pleasant now Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night, But that wild music burdens every bough, And sweets grown common lose their dear delight. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield )
Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1))
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. (Quote by - David Foster Wallace)
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
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. (Quote by - Christopher Walken)
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before. (Quote by - Nobuo Uematsu)
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious. (Quote by - Søren Kierkegaard)
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. (Quote by - Timothy White)
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music. (Quote by - Peter Maxwell Davies)
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
All objects lose by too familiar a view. (Quote by - John Dryden)
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. (Quote by - Gavin Newsom)
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement. (Quote by - Kenneth Williams)
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. (Quote by - George Sand)
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes. (Quote by - Paul Lazarsfeld)
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. (Quote by - Roy Hattersley)
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. (Quote by - Boris Spassky)
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. (Quote by - Jon Crosby)
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace! (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. (Quote by - Brian Greene)
A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. (Quote by - Alexander Chase)
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. (Quote by - Henry Villard)
Few men have been admired by their own households. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. (Quote by - Debbie Reynolds)
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1))
I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom. (Quote by - Thomas Heywood)
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds. (Quote by - Antoine Rivarol)
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. (Quote by - Florence King)
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity. (Quote by - David Knopfler)
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. (Quote by - Michael Stipe)
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. (Quote by - Cicero)
A woman who throws herself at a man's head will soon find her place at his feet. (Quote by - Louis Claude Joseph Desnoyers)
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. (Quote by - Ouida)
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity…. And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. (Quote by - Chaka Khan)
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Familiarity and satiety are twins. (Quote by - Dorothee DeLuzy)
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. (Quote by - Saskya Pandita)
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. (Quote by - Cynthia Ozick)
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. (Quote by - Albert Claude)
How wondrous familiar is a fool! (Quote by - Herman Melville)
Familiarity breeds attempt. (Quote by - Jane Sherwood Ace)
Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts. (Quote by - Comtesse de Genlis)
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. (Quote by - Alex North)
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Campbell Scott)
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. (Quote by - Samuel Clemens)
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
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. (Quote by - Hermann Ebbinghaus)
Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. (Quote by - Cervantes)
