Quotes with familiarity

  • Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

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  • Eric Hoffer Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Boris Spassky Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus Familiarity breeds contempt.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Mark Twain Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aldous Huxley Familiarity breeds indifference.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ouida Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Campbell Scott 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 so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Anne Edwards She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
    Anne Edwards
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Albert Claude This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • William Hazlitt Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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