Acquaintance Quotes · Page 6

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

— Bob Edwards

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

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

— Robert Jordan

“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

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

— Warren MacKenzie

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

— Susan Cain

She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person…

— Deanna Raybourn

Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not…

— Anonymous

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there…

— Walter Savage Landor

I wouldn't say I'm a friend of David Byrne, but I guess I'm an acquaintance. I'm obviously an admirer, and we've met,…

— James Murphy

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing…

— Anonymous

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in…

— Franz Kafka

Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought,…

— Horatius Bonar

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom…

— William Dunbar

I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances…

— Kate Winslet

The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often…

— Edward Hoagland

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish…

— Joan Didion

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of…

— Charlotte Bronte

The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic…

— Wayne Dyer

In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about…

— Virginia Woolf

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies.…

— George Horace Lorimer

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to…

— Sarah Vowell

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

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

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

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Mark Twain

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Milla Jovovich

“You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another one will remain an acquaintance…

— John D. MacDonald

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Acquaintances may come and go, as Friends may come and stay. However, true friends will never leave your side or ever fade…

— Nishan Panwar

“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana