Top 173 Acquaintances Quotes & Sayings

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

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I am not anti-European. I have many friends and acquaintances who are Europeans.

Sheamus and I did have a rivalry and then became a team, and we went from being work acquaintances to becoming best friends.

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

Make few acquaintances.

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.

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

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

If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

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

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

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

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

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.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

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

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

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

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

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

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

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

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.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

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

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

With politics, everyone - your neighbour, acquaintances, anyone you ever meet - has an opinion. Particularly about what Arvind Kejriwal should be doing.

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Within the family unit, you have people you grew up with who are supposed to be your brother, father, or your mother who are almost like strangers and acquaintances.

I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The word 'friendship' has lost its significance.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

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

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous.

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

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

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

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

I've done some stuff with Glenn Danzig before, and while I can't really say that we're friends, we're friendly acquaintances.

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

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.

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

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.