Quotes: Familiarity

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.

There’s some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you’ve never heard that piece of music before.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

I feel like I’m stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it’s always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.