Top 26 Acquaintance Friendship Quotes

#1. The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#2. A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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#3. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

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#4. I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

Abigail McCarthy

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#5. You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

Jude Morgan

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#6. You cannot lead by following.

Alex Ferguson

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#7. The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.

Anna Garlin Spencer

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#8. I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

David Simon

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#9. In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Herman Melville

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#10. Hell is where time has stopped, where there's no more innovation. No horizon. No change. I sometimes think Hell would suit the British down to the ground, and that, given the chance, they'd vote for it.

Paul Cornell

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#11. An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.

Oscar Wilde

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#12. Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Lord Chesterfield

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#14. I express not the word for the word but the sense for the sense.

David Bellos

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#15. It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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#16. The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#17. Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

Abraham Cowley

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#18. Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

Maggie Grace

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#19. Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

David Hume

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#20. Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#21. Hmm," Joseph shrugged. "Good point. Who needs a caravan guard when you've got a Genshwin?

S.G. Night

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#22. I had a dream about you last night... and found out that friends are a label we love to use, but usually it's just a nice word for "acquaintance.

Marshall Ramsay

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#23. Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

Bryant McGill

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#24. I finally shook myself out of my reticence.
He was just a boy. He was harmless. He had a girlfriend who was gorgeous and sociable. I would calibrate my smiles and interactions to friendship or acquaintance level. No big deal.

Penny Reid

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#25. While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

C.S. Lewis

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#26. Now Gibbie had been honoured with the acquaintance of many dogs, and the friendship of most of them, for a lover of humanity can hardly fail to be a lover of caninity.

George MacDonald

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