Familiarity Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Familiarity

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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.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~


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.
~By Henry Villard ~


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


I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
~By Debbie Reynolds ~


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


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


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.
~By Albert Claude ~


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


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


You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
~By Timothy White ~


Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.
~By Jason Zebehazy ~


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.
~By David Knopfler ~


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


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


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.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~


Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
~By Mark Twain ~


In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
~By Paul Lazarsfeld ~


She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
~By Anne Edwards ~


Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
~By Roy Hattersley ~


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.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~


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


Familiarity breeds contempt.
~By Publilius Syrus ~


My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
~By Chaka Khan ~


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.
~By Christopher Walken ~


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.
~By Michael Stipe ~


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.
~By Gavin Newsom ~


Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
~By George Sand ~


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


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.
~By Campbell Scott ~


Familiarity breeds contempt.
~By Aesop ~


'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.
~By Jon Crosby ~


In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
~By William Bernbach ~


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.
~By Kenneth Williams ~


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.
~By Alex North ~


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

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