Familiarity

Quotes about familiarity.

Sourced

• I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III, Chapter VI.

• "When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman."
  • Joseph Addison, The Spectator (May 24, 1711).

• "Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness."
  • Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise De La Ramee), Princess Napraxine (1906) p. 19.

• "Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Prometheus Unbound" in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1839) p. 123.

• "Familiarity is the thing -- the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness"
  • E.B. White, "Homecoming".

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 259-60.

• Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.
  • Familiarity breeds contempt.
  • Thomas Aquinas, Ad Joannem fratrem Monitio; Syrus, Maxims, 640. Idea in Cicero, Pro Murena, Chapter IX. Livy, Book XXXV, Chapter X. Plutarch, C. Mar., Chapter XVI. Jean de La Fontaine, Fables IV. X.

• Quod crebro videt non miratur, etiamsi cur fiat nescit. Quod ante non vidit, id si evenerit, ostentum esse censet.
  • 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, De Divinatione, II. 22.

• I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.
  • Thomas Heywood, Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.

• Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 3, line 61.

• And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
  • William Shakespeare, Sonnet CII.

• Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!
  • Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Stanza 38.

Unsourced

• "Familiarity induces contempt, but distance secures respect."
  • Publilius Syrus (attributed).