Familiarity Quotes - Page 2

• Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.143

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• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Knowledge, Delight

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.932

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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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• And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

  Pico Iyer

  Inspirational, Best Love, Travel

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• A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, People, Way

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.71, Macmillan

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• Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

  Florence King

  Contempt

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• The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Way, Familiar

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.21

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Law, Ease, Civility

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• It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

  David Foster Wallace

  Important, Way, Reminding

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Goddess, Familiar

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The Spectator”, p.286

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• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Ignorant, Doe

  "De Divinatione", II. 22, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 259-60,

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• Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

  George Sand

  Admiration, Stranger, Aeroplanes

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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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• For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, Mean, Ordinary

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Familiarity breeds contempt.

  Aesop

  Relationship, Wisdom, Disrespect

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

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• Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

  E. B. White

  Evil, Exemption, Grants

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

  William Bernbach

  Communication, Apathy

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• Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

  Scott Baio

  Magic, Farming, Wands

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Veils, Rich, Myth

  "On Stories and Other Essays on Literature". Book by C. S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper, "Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings", p. 90, 1982.

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

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Pieces, Celtic, Music Is

  Press conference, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• Familiarity breeds attempt.

  Jane Ace

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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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• That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Kissing, Hug, Hollywood

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• I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Thee, Contempt

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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