Quotes About Acquaintance

I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.

But it was as if I had been looking at him for years and had known him always.

She had not yet divested herself of a young faith that each new acquaintance would exert some momentous influence on her life.

on so short an acquaintance remains shut up in his breast.  His mother, I know, went to his door

secret of what passed between him and the strange girl who would have sacrificed her marriage to him on so short an acquaintance remains

Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago.

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

When no one knew who Dana White was... Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.

He's okay—I guess the murderers you know are better than the ones you don't").

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

I didn't know Ian Smith myself!

A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

By stablishing an acquaintance with Lucie, I too had set my destiny in motion; but I did not lose sight of it. Though we didn't meet very often, at least our mettings were fairly regular, and I knew she was capable of waiting several weeks and then greeting me as if we'd seen each other the day before

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.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

familiarity breeds acceptance.

She'd never understood why, in a place designed for singles to meet and become acquainted, the music had to be so loud. A hundred twenty decibels made it almost impossible to have a conversation and had to be damaging their hearing

Can we go out sometime? Or, I mean, I mean... Can we maybe just hang out? Can we get to know each other? You're new in town, right? I've lived here forever-- I mean-- I mean... there are... reasons... for you to hang out with me?

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

As a reporter, Brian Keyes had come to know B.D. Harper fairly well. There was nothing not to like; there simply was nothing much at all.

As for Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip, all that need be known about them at this point is that they are the kind of people who call you "friend." People like that aren't friendly.