Acquaintance Quotes

299 quotes by 236 authors

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. — Jonathan Swift
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the… — Patricia Briggs
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the… — Fanny Burney
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… — Georges Cuvier
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature… — Unknown Author
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. — Robert Breault
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance… — Erich Fromm
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether… — Benjamin Franklin
Acquaintance softens prejudice. — Aesop
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art,… — William Saroyan
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… — Florence King
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. — Mojo Nixon
With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are… — Erik Qualman

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