Top 323 Acquaintance Quotes & Sayings

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

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

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

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

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

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

I'm not dating Prateik; he is just a good acquaintance.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

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

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

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

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

John Stamos is a good acquaintance of mine.

First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

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

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

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

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

It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

I love to be loved. Whether it is by a significant other or an acquaintance, I get it.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

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

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.

I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.

Augmenting your appearance so drastically that it elicits a reaction from literally every acquaintance you greet is a sea change.

I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.

The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

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

If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.

I can't count a single conservative of my acquaintance that doesn't include charitable work in their list of priorities.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

I wouldn't dream of giving any human being marks out of 10 on two hours' acquaintance.