First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I wouldn't dream of giving any human being marks out of 10 on two hours' acquaintance. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. — Hattie McDaniel Copy Share Image
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you… — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.” — Dr Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent… — George Ade Copy Share Image
You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend:… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I used to imagine life divided into separate compartments, consisting, for example, of such dual abstractions as pleasure and pain, love and… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
