Quotes About Acquaintances

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

Those who talk about books as commodities are inauthentic, just as those who collect acquaintances can be superficial in their friendships. A novel you like resembles a friend. You read it and reread it, getting to know it better. Like a friend, you accept it the way it is; you do not judge it.

I shall do better amongst other faces; and these familiar ones, it need hardly be said, will do just as well without me.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Ich mag dich, aber nicht deine idiotischen Freunde.

There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

After all, every man will climb if he can, and not many of them continue so kind to old acquaintances.

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Christopher Hitchens and I were not friends or even acquaintances. We never met or spoke on the phone, just exchanged occasional brief letters - notes, really - hand-written and snail-mailed at first, e-mailed later.

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

I am what I am," Ty said. "And what is that?" Ariane asked. "A bartender. Always happy to make new acquaintances." He nodded at Bard. "Or to provide guests with drinks. Anyone thirsty?

Footsteps and jolly hallooing come his way: sounds more terrible to his ears than the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen, for they signify that he shall have to be civil to chaps he barely knows.

In Mumbai, I don't know many people. I only know colleagues.

I must have worked with over 100 actors, but I think there are four to five names I count on my fingers and say they are my friends.

And she keeps in touch with Stacey, who isn't averse to doing foreigners for an old friend either.

I'm Magnus." He smiled, showing blinding white teeth. "Magnus Bane." "Are we long-lost friends, by any chance?" Simon said. "Just wondering." "No, we never got along all that well," said Magnus. "Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you.

Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.