A Quote by Noel Coward

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Noel Coward

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Noel Coward
English - Playwright
December 16, 1899 - March 26, 1973

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

Paul Lazarsfeld

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Aesop

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Mark Twain

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Chaka Khan

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Mark Twain

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Hunter S. Thompson

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Familiarity breeds contempt, people say. But I've found, for creative things, familiarity breeds peace of mind, because you realize you know someone better. You trust each other. You know not to take things a certain way, or a wrong way. You get to where you don't have to waste quite so much time with diplomacy. Things are a little more efficient.