Top 27 Too Much Familiarity Breeds Contempt Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.
Oli Anderson
#3. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Roy Hattersley
#4. I think I grew up that night. It might have been Patrick that lost his virginity, but it was me that lost my innocence.
T.A. Webb
#5. But if familiarity breeds contempt, it also fosters a bond -
James St. James
#6. Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
George Santayana
#7. Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
Martin Freeman
#8. Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
Mark Twain
#9. So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights." (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan's aggression on Kashmir)
Krishna Menon
#10. 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
#11. You are strong. You are a wonderful, strong human being.
Elly Griffiths
#12. Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom.
Sherry Argov
#13. Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
Noel Coward
#14. 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
#15. Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Stewart Udall
#16. 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
#17. '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
#18. 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
#19. Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
Amanda Craig
#20. My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
Chaka Khan
#21. Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
Apuleius
#22. You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.
Virginia Madsen
#23. Love should be your top priority, primary objective, and greatest ambition. Love is not a good part of your life; it's the most important part. The Bible says, Let love be your greatest aim.
Rick Warren
#24. Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
Lena Dunham
#25. 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
#26. There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles De Gaulle
