Acquaintance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
-- David Eagleman -
Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.
-- Elsa Triolet -
The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.
-- Fanny Burney -
I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.
-- Frances Trollope -
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 -
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
-- George Eliot -
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
-- Hilaire Belloc -
Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.
-- Kate Winslet -
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.
-- Lydia M. Child -
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
-- Mojo Nixon -
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.
-- Nicholas A. Christakis -
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
-- Philip Gilbert Hamerton -
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 -
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
-- Sylvia Ashton-Warner -
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
Make few acquaintances.
-- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild -
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
-- Austin O'Malley -
We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.
-- Warren MacKenzie
