Quotes About Acquaintances

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

A man with no enemies is no good as a friend.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

It is always good to make new friends.

I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.

I don't like new people coming around me. I'm going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.

I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.

Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

Dan and Steve. I've know them for years. They're a bit dull, I'm afraid, but I have to see them sometimes. Duck noires, right? Sorry? I call 'em duck noires. Sort of a mixture of lame duck and bête noire. People you don't want to see but kinda feel you should.

I have really good instincts about friends.

As of the writing of this particular book, I have 43 "close friends,"* 196 "good friends,"** and 2,200 "affable acquaintances."*** *These are people I would phone immediately if I was diagnosed with lung cancer. ** These are people whose death from lung cancer would make me profoundly sad. *** These are people I would generally hope would recover from lung cancer.

So I separated all my books into stacks: best friends, old friends, classic friends, new friends, and casual acquaintances.

No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicker like bitchy teenagers on a regular basis. In some way, though, each found it comforting; it reminded them how close they really were: Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

the possessor of such great expectations,—farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;

How glad she was that none of them were really intimate friends. All of them new friends from Aunt Pat's circle of acquaintances. Her own girlhood friends were all too poor or too far away to be summoned.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think that it is rather vain.

I know all the people I want to know.

Acquaintances, after all, are little else than a bad habit.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.