Top 37 Friend Vs Acquaintance Quotes

#1. We knocked lightly on the door. A voice asked who we might be, for nobody will ever open in Italy until identity is declared. Security, even in the remotest villages, is at New York standards.

Tim Parks

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.

Dan Groat

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

Ernie Harwell

#13. I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.

Danielle Panabaker

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

Herman Melville

#15. Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#16. Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#17. Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Mark Twain

#18. The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

#19. We master our fears by embracing them, not by subduing them.

Arianna Huffington

#20. In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.

Joe Abercrombie

#21. 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

#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. Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

Fernando Pessoa

#26. Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

Carolyn Wells

#27. Mediocrity is your enemy,
satisfactory is your acquaintance,
excellence is your friend,
and genius is your soul mate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. 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

#29. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

#30. Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Ann Voskamp

#31. 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

#32. Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army

Jeanne DuPrau

#33. The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Ed Koch

#34. 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

#35. Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.

Georges F. Doriot

#36. After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

Page Smith

#37. The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.

Liu Bei

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