Acquaintance Quotes

299 quotes by 242 authors

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. — Abraham Cowley
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has… — Charles Caleb Colton
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,… — William Stanley Jevons
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste. If you want… — Rajneesh
Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of… — Joseph Cook
The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. — Kenneth Williams
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic… — Justus von Liebig
After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend — Page Smith
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. — James Prescott Joule
An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm… — Bernardino Ramazzini
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old… — Henry David Thoreau
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion… — William Shakespeare
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no… — Kate Winslet
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.… — Mark Twain
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and… — D. H. Lawrence

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