Quotes About Acquaintances

Nellie was a good girl, and I think had a sort of quiet respect for old Fagg's unobtrusiveness. But her fancy was already taken captive by Rattler's superficial qualities, which were obvious and pleasing. I don't think Nellie was any worse than you or I. We are more apt to take acquaintances at their apparent value than their intrinsic worth. It's less trouble, and, except when we want to trust them, quite as convenient.

If you knew some of the people he does have!" Maisie knew them all, and none indeed were to be compared to Sir Claude.

I made friends slowly when I made them at all.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly reinforced every time one of his acquaintances identifies him by baseball or inquires about his status. How much of our identity and worth is wrapped up in our job title or the one we are aspiring to?

For years all the people in his life had been people he'd known for a long time;

I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The word 'friendship' has lost its significance.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

In the business, you're lucky if when you're done you can look on your hand and count the number of true friends you have on one hand. If you can do that, if you have five friends that you can really call friends, you've had a successful career.

Linkedin is for people you know. Facebook is for people you used to know. Twitter is for people you want to know.

One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.

I was reasonably sure that my one tried-and-true method of being aggressively rude wasn't actually how normal people made their friends.

No confío en la gente que cree tener muchos amigos. Es señal de que no conocen a los demás.

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.

Y creo que usted no tiene muchos amigos. Yo tampoco. No confío en la gente que cree tener muchos amigos. Es señal de que no conocen a los demás.

I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

We are all acquaintances now

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.

What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.