Acquaintance

What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any 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 more so by those who do not know so much of us.

- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

- Fanny Burney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

- Franklin Jones Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

- Jane Smiley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

- Marilyn vos Savant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Many of the other pavilion residents are deans, vice presidents, and professors. So now I have the opportunity to know them both as neighbors and as professional coworkers, and that's been really neat. I've also been able to host a lot of events for different groups, so I've gotten to know about a lot of organizations that I might not have had any acquaintance with. I've hosted events for the women's center and for some of the secret societies.

- Jeanette Lancaster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Honor and shame from no condition rise Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

- Alexander Pope Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious.

- Henry St. John Bolingbroke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

- Charles Babbage Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe ... that Andrew Cunanan did have the acquaintance of Gianni Versace, ... I don't believe they were lovers, but I believe they were in the same place at the same time and that they knew each other.

- Maureen Orth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

- George Boole Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

- G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Amelia Barr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second if there is one.

- George Bernard Shaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Mr. Rove remembers they had met at a political event in the 1990s. Since then, he would describe him as a casual acquaintance.

- Erin Healy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

- Gregory Peck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One hundred and five out of 107 reported rapes on campus last year were acquaintance rapes, with victims knowing the rapist for a year or more.

- Ryan Tritch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

- George Washington Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes