Acquaintance Quotes - Page 2
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (1878). “MODERN FRENCHMEN”
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
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”
Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.315, ReadHowYouWant.com
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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
'Journal to Stella' (published in 'Works', 1768) 17 May 1711
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