Quotes About Acquaintance

Words that you have seen before become easier to see again

You know where everything is. You practically live here now." Shamron muttered something in Polish about the ingratitude

Months after I got to know the five of them, I found to my surprise that at the start they'd been nearly as bewildered by me as I by them.

since I heard. Yes, Will, I do know her, and it makes

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

Familiarity breed contempt.

He also became better acquainted with Czerny, who invited him to his house to play some music for two pianofortes. "He is a good fellow, but nothing more," Chopin remarked of the renowned pedagogue. And he added the revealing comment, "There is more feeling in Czerny himself than in all his compositions.

When she was not persuading him that he was, like all men without a woman in their lives, utterly helpless, she indulged in an unending tide of gossip. This mainly concerned people her son had never heard of, nor, on the strength of their entire life histories, had any wish for further acquaintance.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.

I'm always calling people 'mate.'

Chris Corso became a friend several years ago, I've always loved his restaurants.

Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Many found the very idea hilarious. "Hi, Karen—how's God?" they would ask, as though inquiring about a mutual acquaintance.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

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.