Quotes Tagged With :acquaintance

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us....

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.

In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are....

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It....

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know....

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and....

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true....

Don’t allow people to come in and out of your life when it only benefits them.