Acquaintance Quotes

Better the devil you know than the angel you don't.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

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

Make few acquaintances.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

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