Familiar Quotes & Sayings

Familiar Quotes & Sayings

These familiar quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection.  Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. [Conrad writing about Henry James] - Joseph Conrad



Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce



How wondrous familiar is a fool! - Herman Melville



The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains, Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learn'd the language of another world. - Lord Byron



It's inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you-a successor to the kings and queens of history; someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films but who never touches your personal lives. But now, at least for a few minutes, I welcome you to the peace of my own home. - Elizabeth II



All objects lose by too familiar a view. - John Dryden



People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. - Neil Postman



Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. - Joseph Addison



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