There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. Votes: 4
Charles de GaulleMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Votes: 4
Honore de BalzacThough familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. Votes: 4
William HazlittFamiliarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds. Votes: 4
Antoine RivarolFamiliarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness Votes: 3
Marie Louise De La RameeFamiliarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. Votes: 3
Noel CowardFamiliarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds Votes: 3
Antoine RivarolFamiliarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. Votes: 3
E. B. WhiteFamiliarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up. Votes: 3
Karl HydeYou need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. Votes: 2
Timothy WhiteLike any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. Votes: 2
Martin FreemanWhen a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. Votes: 2
Joseph AddisonThe keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. Votes: 2
Patrick KavanaghThere's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before. Votes: 2
Nobuo UematsuThe ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. Votes: 2
Joseph JoubertI would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!' Votes: 2
Steve CarellConsistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales. Votes: 0
Jay Conrad LevinsonRepetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown. Votes: 0
Steven LevenkronWhere nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. Votes: 0
Stewart UdallThe familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheAny familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. Votes: 0
Martha RoslerArt is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects. Votes: 0
Rudolf ArnheimShe hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name... Votes: 0
Jennifer WeinerWhat situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity? Votes: 0
Richard Saul WurmanI like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood. Votes: 0
Binyavanga WainainaFor me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. Votes: 0
Ian BogostI wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. Votes: 0
Debbie ReynoldsIt was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable. Votes: 0
Gerry AbbeyOne of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible. Votes: 0
Napoleon Hillbut they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least. Votes: 0
David NichollsI was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously. Votes: 0
FeistI would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV! Votes: 0
Steve CarellWith horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves. Votes: 2 Jane Smiley