Acquaintance Quotes

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

— Aesop

Acquaintance lessens fame.

— Claudius

Bitches these days '-' fuck you all.

— Gzxc

Make few acquaintances.

— Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

Live life like that

— Anonymous

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Better the devil you know than the angel you don't

— Hama Tuma

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..

— Jane Austen

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

— Jonathan Swift

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

— Emily Dickinson

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

— Arlene Francis

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and…

— Ambrose Bierce

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

— Marilyn vos Savant

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as…

— Maria Monk

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

— Kenneth Williams

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of…

— Mark Twain

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

— Anonymous

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which…

— Tom Barbash

It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we…

— George Washington

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass…

— Thomas Hardy

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product…

— Leland Stanford

trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him ... a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib ...…

— Hal Lindsey

I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a…

— Abigail McCarthy

There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels…

— Leonard Peltier

She always has kind words for me, so I've wished to know her name. What do I call her?; oh if I…

— Reynold

“I’ve learned difference between a friend and an acquaintance. Acquaintances provide a warm body in the room. They provide entertainment. They can…

— John Herrick

“In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a…

— Henry Fielding

Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means…

— Justus von Liebig

“For me, there are distinct levels of friendship: BEST FRIEND: An extremely close individual you can do anything with, talk about everything…

— Connor Franta

The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in…

— J. C. Ryle

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

— Samuel Johnson

John Stamos is a good acquaintance of mine.

— Perez Hilton

When you realize your old bestfriend is now just an acquaintance...

— Anonymous