Best 65 quotes in «acquaintance quotes» category

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.

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

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.

I'd rather be a nodding acquaintance, than a bobble head

Don’t get shitty when I treat you as you are, a casual acquaintance

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.

Lonely girls and women need not very gently flashing pink light, small pendant speaking of the fact that it is free and is looking for a boyfriend or husband. Similarly pendant want boys and men who are looking for a girlfriend or wife.

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

Sometimes you'll remove the log from your own eyes and to your amazement; you will see that your friend has no speck there after all the suspicions. You got to see before you judge!

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

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

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

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

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

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

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

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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.

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

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

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

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

A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

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

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

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

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

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

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

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

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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

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