Acquaintance Quotes

• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Real, Truthful

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Scarce

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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Best Friend, Networking

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• The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.

  John D. MacDonald

  Communication, Thinking, Years

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• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Friendship, Depth

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• You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

  Jane Lynch

  Just Friends, Friendly, Needs

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• Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Enough, Wells

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 12

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• Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Wise

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

  Isaac Watts

  Ignorance, Stupidity

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.7

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• 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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• Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

  William Powell

  Inspirational, Friendship, Real Friends

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

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Persons, Definite

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.93, 谷月社

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• I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

  Nathan Fillion

  Who I Am, Knowing, You Don't Know Me

  "Nathan Fillion is king of "Castle"". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.reuters.com. March 6, 2011.

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• I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, People

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 445 (21 July 1763)

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• Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Beauty, Heart, People

  Fredrika Bremer (1844). “New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace”, p.94

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

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Quality, Three, Literature

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Safety, Pleasant

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.281

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• 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.

  Georg Brandes

  Smile, Circles, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Probability Theory, Perfect, Expectations

  Collected Logical Works Volume II An Investigation of the Law of Thought Chapter XVI (p. 258)

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• Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Degrees, Rich, Obscure

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 12

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• Acquaintance lessens fame.

  Claudius

  Fame

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• If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

  Leon Trotsky

  Pavement, Politician, Fascists

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• 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

  Men, Hats, Great Men

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