Familiarity Breeds Contempt Quotes by Apuleius, Noel Coward, Chaka Khan, Paul Lazarsfeld, George Santayana, Aesop and many others.
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it’s impossible to breed anything.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
In politics, familiarity doesn’t breed contempt. It breeds votes.
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
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)
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.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
