Acquaintance Quotes · Page 4

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

— Milla Jovovich

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— Charles Fort

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

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she…

— Florence King

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will…

— Rudyard Kipling

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of…

— George Eliot

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and…

— Bill Monroe

“For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of…

— Bertrand Russell

When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember…

— Carl Icahn

The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the…

— Kathryn Minshew

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person…

— Kim Edwards

This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the…

— Indu Sundaresan

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once…

— Carolyn Wells

A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods…

— Anonymous

Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared…

— Julian Simon

I think it's more difficult writing what it's like to be a child. You can pretend you know what it's like, but…

— Tama Janowitz

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence…

— Anonymous

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Frank Zappa

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Confucius

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

— Susan Cain

We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.

— Warren MacKenzie

“acquaintance with the author is limited to brief visits and loving fellowship”

— A.W. Tozer

I've worked with Sourav and I enjoy his company. I found him to be likeable and a very nice fellow. It will…

— Greg Chappell

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

— Robert Jordan

What is meant by a knowledge of the world is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men

— Charles Dickens

“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and…

— Albert Camus

He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance…

— Elizabeth Strout

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask,…

— Gina Barreca

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance…

— William Henry Houghton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Steven Pressfield