Acquaintance Quotations

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.

If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases