Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest…

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

— Laura Bohannan

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

— William Hazlitt

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things…

— Brad Stevens

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

— Winifred Kirkland

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days…

— George Gissing

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form…

— Samuel Johnson

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz

“And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming…

— Rebecca James

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives…

— Samuel L. Jackson

You have to know that you have to have familiarity with the artist that you want to be, but there's so much about it…

— Monica Barbaro

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's…

— Campbell Scott

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

— Vikrant Parsai