Familiarity Quote by Honore de Balzac Download Open image “A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.” — Honore de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Familiarity Monsters
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large. — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Monsters linger on the mind and can only grow with fear but we forget our biggest monster is often found staring back in the… — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by. — Winifred Kirkland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
