Overfamiliarity Quotes

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

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I've had so many people say stuff to me. I meet them, have a chat for five minutes and they think they can say what they like. I used to laugh it off, but now I think 'why do you think you can say that to me? You don't know me.'

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.

As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!

I've had people come up and actually pick me up out of the blue. That gets a little annoying.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

There's nothing more frustrating than when fans use a nickname. That's like people you don't know using names from people that you're intimate with. Like if my mom has a nickname and a fan finds it out and starts using it, that's creepy.

A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

I know hotel life sounds good but, believe me, it grows old when you have eaten the menu ten times over and you know you've stayed too long when you're on first-name terms with the staff.

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.

The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler." from "Dug Down Deep

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

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.

'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've definitely had my fair share of guys being a little too much with me, and they think just because they follow me on Instagram, they know me.

Familiarity breeds contempt.