Familiarity Breeds Contempt Quotes

No man is a hero to his valet.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

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

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

You know, there are times when you play a song over and over and over and you get a little tired of it and you let it sit for a while. It's like, you may love eating sushi, but if you eat it every single day, you're going to get a little tired of it.

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

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

If the audience gets to see anything in abundance, they lose interest.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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.

What is familiar tends to become a value.

Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar.

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.