Top Familiarity Quotes
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Roy Hattersley
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
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
Anne Edwards
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
Kenneth Williams
Honore De Balzac 
Gavin Newsom 
Debbie Reynolds 
Timothy White 
Michael Stipe 
Nobuo Uematsu 
Campbell Scott 
Paul Lazarsfeld 
Chaka Khan 
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Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Roy Hattersley 
59% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
Anne Edwards
58% of people like this quote
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
Kenneth Williams
58% of people like this quote
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida
58% of people like this quote
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
Timothy White
57% of people like this quote
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
57% of people like this quote
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
Alex North
57% of people like this quote
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
Nobuo Uematsu
56% of people like this quote
Popular Familiarity Authors
Mark TwainWilliam HazlittHonore De BalzacLord ChesterfieldPublilius SyrusCharles de Gaulle AesopMichael StipeJon CrosbyGeorge SandGavin NewsomDavid Foster WallaceWilliam BernbachSusie BrightNobuo Uematsu
Chaka KhanBoris SpasskyPeter Maxwell DaviesHermann EbbinghausCampbell ScottAlbert ClaudeDavid KnopflerAlex NorthHenry VillardBrian Greene OuidaJason ZebehazySaskya PanditaDebbie ReynoldsKenneth Williams
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