Quotes of: Acquaintance Keyword

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

John James Audubon

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

Hattie McDaniel

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Henry Lawson

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Virgil

Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.

M.B. Dallocchio

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

Marquis de Sade

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Novalis

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Bertrand Russell

Colonel Brandon: Your sister seems very happy. Elinor Dashwood: Yes. Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught. Colonel Brandon: She is wholly unspoilt....

Sense and Sensibility

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

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope...

Thomas Decker Thomas Middleton

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

Kenneth Williams

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Ambrose Bierce

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Charles Bronson

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Eliza Farnham