Familiarity Breeds Contempt Quotes

• Familiarity breeds contempt.

  Aesop

  Relationship, Wisdom, Disrespect

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

  Apuleius

  Winning, Admiration, Contempt

  "On the God of Socrates". Ch. 4,

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• 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

  Funny, Respect, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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

  William Hazlitt

  Idols, May, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  Notebook, 1894

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• Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

  Roy Hattersley

  Acceptance, Evil, Suffering

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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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Night, Men, Wife

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Mystery, Prestige, Contempt

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

  George Santayana

  Inattention, Contempt, Familiarity

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Waiting, Want, Kind

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• My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

  Chaka Khan

  Philosophy, Contempt, Familiarity

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• But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

  Apuleius

  Insanity, Existence, Blindness

  Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics

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• Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

  Simone Elkeles

  Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Long Relationship

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

  Paul Lazarsfeld

  Political, Politics, Vote

  The English Digest, Vol. 57, p. 34, 1958.

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• Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They can’t understand why you have more than they do when you’re just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Madness, Realizing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

  Noel Coward

  Sex, Littles, Impossible

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