Acquaintance Quotes · Page 6

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

— Confucius

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

— Frank Zappa

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either.”

— Charles Fort

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

— Karl Kraus

“I had a dream about you last night... and found out that friends are a label we love to use, but usually…

— Marshall Ramsay

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of…

— Roger Zelazny

“Sometimes you'll remove the log from your own eyes and to your amazement; you will see that your friend has no speck…

— Israelmore Ayivor

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and…

— Leah Ward Sears

I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only…

— Macaulay Culkin

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with…

— Paul Schullery

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and…

— Richard V. Allen

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history,…

— Walter Scott

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know…

— Christiane Amanpour

When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and…

— John Muir

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the…

— Joseph Addison

Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them…

— Anne Frank

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure…

— John Stuart Mill

The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along…

— Henry David Thoreau

A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the…

— Charles Duhigg

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted…

— Lewis H. Lapham

We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— George Eliot

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

— James Prescott Joule

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends…

— Samuel Johnson

I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is…

— Fanny Burney

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with…

— Mallory Ortberg

Every single day we meet someone new, we may not notice, but they are just in the view. can you please open…

— Romeo Huerbana

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

— Henrik Ibsen

He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.

— Charlaine Harris

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

— Bob Edwards

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more…

— Margaret Thatcher

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

— Anonymous

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

— Anonymous

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag…

— Laurence Sterne

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

— Oscar Wilde