Acquaintance Quotes

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.

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.

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.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

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.

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

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

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.

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.

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

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

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

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.

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

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

I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

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

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

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

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.

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

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

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

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

Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A wise man knows everything a shrewd one everybody.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.