Best 65 quotes in «acquaintance quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

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

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

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

The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

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

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

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

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

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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

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.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

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

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.

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.

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