Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. Votes: 4
Marilyn vos SavantI have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. Votes: 4
Ian SomerhalderAcquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. Votes: 3
Abraham CowleyThe mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. Votes: 3
Logan Pearsall SmithIt occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. Votes: 3
Arthur MillerAcquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceA woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man Votes: 1
Edgar Watson HoweI look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Votes: 1
Samuel JohnsonA long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. Votes: 0
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeThe fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. Votes: 0
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeA comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager. Votes: 0
Sylvia Ashton-Warner[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. Votes: 0
Sylvia Townsend WarnerAn acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeThere seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisA woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. Votes: 0
E. W. HoweThe mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. Votes: 0
Ed KochA new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliNot until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. Votes: 0
Mark TwainJesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! Votes: 0
William Shakespeare