Familiarity Quotes
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida (1890*). “Pascarel. Princess Napraxine”
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.103, Courier Corporation
Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.
Jay Conrad Levinson (2007). “Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.21
"In Her Day". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1976.
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
John Stuart Mill (2007). “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.
George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”
Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press