Quotes about familiarity

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

— Alexander Chase

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

— John Dryden

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

— William Hazlitt

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

— Edgar Watson Howe

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

— Ouida

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

— Antoine Rivarol

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

— William Shakespeare

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Familiarity breeds contempt.

— Publilius Syrus

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.

— Mark Twain