Acquaintance Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquaintance Compliment Friends Friendship Real Real friends Real friendship
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
It feels a lot better when strangers randomly compliment you than when one of your friends does. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Friendship begins with small talks; then grows into a long and deep conversation, the next thing you know...you care so much. — London Mond Copy Share Image
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish,… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image