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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

What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip? — Zen Cho

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

[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

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

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

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

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

Good-bye, self-esteem and fuzzy feelings. It was so nice to make your acquaintance. — T.J. Klune

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

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

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

Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry's and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying. — Ken Kesey

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

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

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

Had been taking much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim the value of the connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect. — Jane Austen

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

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time. — Sam Yagan

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

Trust to a Mercant is a complicated thing. It usually requires years of acquaintance, several background checks, and a probationary period. — Nalini Singh

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

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest. — George Eliot

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

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

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

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance. — Lynn Coady

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

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. — Joe Abercrombie

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances. — Fanny Burney

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

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. — Maria Monk

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

She was thinking. i could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother for her. — Raymond Chandler