Familiarity Quotes

Familiarity and satiety are twins.

Dorothee DeLuzy

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

Julia Ward Howe

Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juice intended for the germ of love.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

Cynthia Ozick

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

William Shakespeare,

Familiarity breeds contempt; distance breeds respect.

Nigerian Proverb

Vice is a monster of such frightful mien as to be hated, needs but to be seen; but seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Alexander Pope

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

George W. Bush

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

Honore de Balzac

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Timothy White

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Mark Twain

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem.

Elizabeth Bowen

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.

Antoine Rivarol

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Lord Chesterfield

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

Edgar Watson Howe

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.

Arthur Helps

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Chase, Alexander

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

Shakespeare, William

Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt.

Thomas Fuller

Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.

Thomas Fuller

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.