Familiarity Quotes

Quotes about familiarity.

“Familiarity induces contempt, but distance secures respect.” ~ Publilius Syrus
o Variant: “I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.” ~ Don Quixote

“When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.”
o Joseph Addison, The Spectator, May 24, 1711.

“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.”
o Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise De La Ramee), Princess Napraxine (1906) p. 19.

“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
o Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound” in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1839) p. 123.