Acquaintance Quotes

299 Acquaintance quotes by 236 unique authors

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but… — Henrik Ibsen
You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical,â€ he went on. â€œI told you I am eager to further… — Gaelen Foley
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain
If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with… — Hanif Kureishi
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall… — Stephen Dobyns
She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been… — Deanna Raybourn
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the… — Rachel Carson
Somewhere between a friend and acquaintanceâ€”a frequaintance, as it were. — Rachel Cohn
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose… — Gail Carson Levine
He picked some unwise words. Saying, â€œIâ€™ll enjoy killing you for my lordâ€, is just not the way to make my acquaintance. — Charlaine Harris
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like… — Anton Chekhov
He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.. — Jane Austen
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they… — Daniel Handler
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing… — Louis de Bernieres
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when… — Ambrose Bierce
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai.… — Astrid Lindgren
We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We… — Charles Dickens
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me… — Fernando Pessoa

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