Quotes About Familiarity Breeds Contempt

#1. 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

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

Charles De Gaulle

#3. Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

Oli Anderson

#4. But if familiarity breeds contempt, it also fosters a bond -

James St. James

#5. Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana

#6. Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Mark Twain

#7. But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Michael Stipe

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

Noel Coward

#9. 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

#10. '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

#11. My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Chaka Khan

#12. Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Apuleius

#13. Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom.

Sherry Argov

#14. A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.

Norman L. Geisler

#15. Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

Dakota Blue Richards

#16. There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

Archibald Rutledge

#18. 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.

Martin Freeman

#19. I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Anne Lamott

#20. There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money ... Jennifer Lawrence ... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

Patrick Whitesell

#21. Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

Martin Freeman

#22. Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Benjamin Jowett

#23. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Roy Hattersley

#24. There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

Harry Connick Jr.

#25. I believe in the understanding of difficult situations, difficult music, or any kind of difficulties, through familiarity. Familiarity, in this case, does not breed contempt, but breeds understanding.

Daniel Barenboim, Edward W. Said

#26. Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.

Amanda Craig

#27. Maxims for Revolutionists TITLES Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

Anonymous

#28. Words without action mean nothing. I'll show you.

Gena Showalter

#29. Not of exhaustion, but surrender, as though he had given over and relinquished completely that grip upon that blending of pride and hope and vanity and fear, that strength to cling to either defeat or victory, which is the I-Am, and the relinquishment of which is usually death.

William Faulkner

#30. What is lawful, what is unlawful?" asked Ku Yuan, prince and poet of Chu. "This country is a slough of despond! Nothing is pure any longer! Informers are exalted! And wise men of gentle birth are without renown!"3

Karen Armstrong

#31. Perhaps it didn't matter, I told myself. Who was there to miss me? No one would suffer from my going. That was a blessing.

Diane Setterfield

#32. Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.

Robert Orben

#33. Bear faghags are known as Goldilocks.

Scott Pomfret

#34. Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

Stewart Udall

#35. Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

Ernest Holmes