Familiarity breeds contempt. [ Proverb ]
Familiarity and satiety are twins. [ Mme. Deluzy ]
Too much familiarity breeds contempt. [ Proverb ]
All objects lose by too familiar a view. [ Dryden ]
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. [ George Sand ]
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. [ William Shakespeare ]
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. [ Cervantes ]
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. [ Goethe ]
Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. [ Fuller ]
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. [ Ouida ]
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. [ Hazlitt ]
A woman who throws herself at a man's head will soon find her place at his feet. [ Louis Desnoyers ]
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. [ Addison ]
Style seems to depend on three things:
1. a mental attitude and character,
2. a familiarity with the best authors,
3. dexterity in the use of words, acquired by constant practice.
So we must learn to speak by speaking, as we learn to walk by walking, or to dance by dancing. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. [ Joubert ]
Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juice intended for the germ of love. [ Landor ]
Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt. [ Fuller ]
Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. [ La Bruyere ]
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. [ La Roche ]
The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. [ Arthur Helps ]
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank. [ Colton ]
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. [ Addison ]
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]