Top 34 Friend Or Acquaintance Quotes
#1. A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after that a friend.
Anton Chekhov
#2. As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company."
"Friend?" he asked.
She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is a better description. Or 'reluctant acquaintance', if you prefer.
Sarah J. Maas
#3. A new phrase was making the rounds in Berlin, to be deployed upon encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street, ideally with a sardonic lift of one eyebrow: "Lebst du noch?" Which meant, "Are you still among the living?
Erik Larson
#4. Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a lot better if you put each of your friends into either your 'close friend' or 'acquaintance' list.
Robert Scoble
#5. True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.
Dan Groat
#6. 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
#7. I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
Sam Yagan
#8. Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
Joe Lieberman
#9. Berliners came to practice what became known as "the German glance" - der deutsche Blick - a quick look in all directions when encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street.
Erik Larson
#10. You don't always need to talk with experts; sometimes the consumer, who just might be a friend or acquaintance, is your best consultant.
Blake Mycoskie
#11. It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney
#12. In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
Herman Melville
#14. Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany.
Euphrates Arnaut Moss
#15. Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
Mark Twain
#16. The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.
Beverly Daniel Tatum
#17. Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
Denis Lavant
#18. In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.
Joe Abercrombie
#19. 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
#20. Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
Bob Uecker
#21. The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
Paul Revere
#22. Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance - a frequaintance, as it were.
Rachel Cohn
#23. It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
Gore Vidal
#24. Danger is a fool's acquaintance,
death is his friend,
and wisdom is his enemy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
Carolyn Wells
#26. Mediocrity is your enemy,
satisfactory is your acquaintance,
excellence is your friend,
and genius is your soul mate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.
Sarah Vowell
#28. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
#29. Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
Mark Twain
#30. Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#31. The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Ed Koch
#32. Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
Charles Caleb Colton
#33. After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend
Page Smith
#34. Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
Ridley Scott
