Quote by Anthony Trollope Download Open image ““Familiarity does breed contempt;—doesn’t it?”” — Anthony Trollope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Familiarity does not breed contempt. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to hide the secret conviction that they’re boring.” — Patrick Honovich Copy Share Image
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“We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.” — The School of Life Copy Share Image
“There are various virtues of what counts as a best explanation, and I imagine familiarity is one of them.” — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“People, after all, only love and respect other people so long as they remain unable to judge them. Longing is a child of ignorance.… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“What was love if not a certain pleasantly deluded familiarity built up over years?” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“I think one of humankind's greatest recurring mistakes is that we don't recognize the full extent of a creature's love until it is gone.” — Sir Awesome Copy Share Image
“People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
