Acquaintance Quotes - Page 3

• My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

  Emily Dickinson

  Spokes

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.931, Harvard University Press

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• The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

  John Milton

  Character, Past, Men

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• Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

  Samuel Johnson

  Admiration, Cease

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.128, Yale University Press

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• Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.

  Robert Burns

  New Year, Kindness, Mind

  Robert Burns (2016). “Burns: 'A Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems”, p.96, Michael O'Mara Books

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• We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Money, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

  William Hague

  Effectiveness, Giving, Independence

  "Conservatives press Cameron to call up Clarke and Davis" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2008.

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• Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Able, Stranger

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• In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

  Marquis de Sade

  Order, Vices, Kinky

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• I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, People, Care

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• Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

  Bill Monroe

  Years, People, Together

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• PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Future, Past

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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• You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

  Eli Whitney

  School, Desire, Reputation

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• I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

  Charles Bronson

  Children, Wife, No Friends

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, People, Titles

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, People, Lasts

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 4, sc. 1

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• If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Great Love, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.30

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• The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, Powerful, War

  Ambrose Bierce (1912). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata”

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• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  Garth Hudson

  Country, Order, Play

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• There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

  Jello Biafra

  Guy, Doe, Band

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002". Interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette, razorcake.org. 2002.

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• We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Country, Mean, Technology

  "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

  Lydia M. Child

  Book, Female, Written

  "Concerning Women". Independent, October 21, 1869.

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• Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Air, Reason, Natural

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Trust, Love You

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Hollywood, Pay, Sincerity

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• 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.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Long, Important, Unseen

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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