"Today, people often make the American mistake of……" — Julian Fellowes
"Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems."
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63 Quotes by Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes has 63 quotes on this site.
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Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have…
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We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.
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One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But…
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In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked…
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If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
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I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
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I can be as contrary as I choose.
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The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.
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There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball…
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I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?
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School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end…
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In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.
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More Acquaintance Quotes
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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