FAMILIARITY

Related Subjects: Form, Friendship, Impertinence, Impudence, Knowledge

1. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
   Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.—ADDISON, Cato
   

2. Familiarity breeds contempt.—AESOP, The Fox and the Lion
   

3. I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.—THOMAS HEYWOOD, Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells
   

4. I hope upon familiarity will grow more contempt.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
   

5. The coach jumbled us insensibly into some sort of familiarity.—SIR RICHARD STEELE, The Spectator
   

6. Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!—TENNYSON, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After