Acquaintance Quote by George Eliot

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

— Seneca the Younger

I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend,…

— Abigail McCarthy

The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the…

— George Eliot

Time is limited; emotions are short. Don't spread yourself too thin. Focus on the close relationships you have now. These are the folks who'll…

— Anonymous

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual…

— Michael Jackson

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to…

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for…

— Honore de Balzac

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because…

— George Eliot

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

— Samuel Johnson