Familiarity Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

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.

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

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.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

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