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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
You don't always need to talk with experts; sometimes the consumer, who just might be a friend or acquaintance, is your best consultant.
— Blake Mycoskie
It's the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.
— Jodi Picoult
I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.
— David Levithan
Make few acquaintances.
— Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
No one wants to see a casual acquaintance in a bedsheet.
— Maggie Stiefvater
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain
My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.
— Christopher S. Wren
Young citizens by the use of our institutions; our better acquaintance with
— Benjamin Franklin
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
An employee's relationship - by blood, marriage or acquaintance - with a person above him in the hierarchy.
— Laurence J. Peter
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
— Franklin P. Jones
She stole a glance at Kevin Kimberly...No other man of her acquaintance ever boasted so smooth a shave or as shapely a haircut.
— Nancy Paschal
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
— George Washington
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.
— Frank Arthur Swinnerton
But I also believe that a person's character can be revealed within moments of the acquaintance, unless he purposely tries to hide it".
— Jennifer K. Clark
Anyway, a man who buys a woman a book this nice is looking to be more than just an acquaintance.
— Charlie Lovett
If Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.
— Susanna Clarke
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves so long as I could see.
— William Shakespeare
poor families in this neighbourhood. She has a large acquaintance, of course professionally,
— Jane Austen
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
— Abraham Cowley
To have been described long ago to a recent acquaintance by nameless people is irresistible.
— Jane Austen
The conferring and comparing of Scriptures is an excellent means of coming to an acquaintance with the mind and will of God in them. - JOHN OWEN
— Joel R. Beeke
I cannot know Jesus through another person's acquaintance with Him.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.
— Elizabeth Kostova
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
— George Eliot
Turning a corner, I ran into an old acquaintance - one of those long-winded fellows whose conversational powers ignore time and embrace eternity.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
— Charles Caleb Colton
To a dream, perhaps a nightmare was simply an unpleasant acquaintance rather than anything uncanny.
— Maggie Stiefvater
CHAPTER XLII AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER'S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS
— Charles Dickens
A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
— Ambrose Bierce
Meeting another human is always a sacred event.
— Bryant McGill
I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.
— Ashley Gardner
If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.
— William Henry Houghton
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
— Kenneth Williams
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
— Anatoly Karpov
You have an astonishing ability to deliver insults in the most normal tone of voice. Do you find that makes you popular among your acquaintance?
— Miranda Neville
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.
— Steven Pressfield
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.
— Beverly Daniel Tatum
acquaintance noun 1. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend.
— Cynical Site
Danger is a fool's acquaintance,death is his friend,
and wisdom is his enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo
You are mistaken; he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
— Jane Austen
He picked some unwise words. Saying, "I'll enjoy killing you for my lord", is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
— Charlaine Harris
I've worked with Sourav and I enjoy his company. I found him to be likeable and a very nice fellow. It will be good to renew the acquaintance.
— Greg Chappell
A pleasure to meet you at last," he said. "I look forward to you making the acquaintance of my ceiling.
— Tiffany Reisz
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
— Carolyn Wells
No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.
— Thomas Watson
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
— David Eagleman
for the other sort of intimate acquaintance,
— James Agee
My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word
— Emily Dickinson
When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.
— Robert A. Heinlein
You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.
— Jude Morgan
Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
— Confucius
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs.
— Victor Hugo
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.
— Robert Breault
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
— James Prescott Joule
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.
— Thomas Carlyle
Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need.
— Jayne Rylon
Day by day we are summoned beyond a safe theological "knowledge of description" to one of unpredictable "acquaintance.
— Susan S. Phillips
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
On so short an acquaintance remains shut up in his breast. His mother, I know, went to his door
— Henry James
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
— Samuel Johnson
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.
— Oscar Wilde
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.
— Francis Of Assisi
And such a pinched-looking ruin of a thing now! I shall advice all the good-looking woman of my acquaintance not to die.
— Susanna Clarke
The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.
— Fanny Burney
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
— Margaret Thatcher
Mediocrity is your enemy,satisfactory is your acquaintance,
excellence is your friend,
and genius is your soul mate. — Matshona Dhliwayo
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
— Austin O'Malley
