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Acquaintance Quotes - Page 2

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.309, Penguin

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

Fanny Burney (1907). “The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney”

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.315, ReadHowYouWant.com

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Gathering Storm: Book 12 of the Wheel of Time”, p.569, Hachette UK

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.16, Knopf Books for Young Readers

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

"Ted 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

'Journal to Stella' (published in 'Works', 1768) 17 May 1711

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.174, Penguin

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4093, Delphi Classics