acquaintance quotes

One eye was entirely gone, and the loss made one side of the face repulsive, while the other might have been modelled in marble.'Desperado' was written in large letters all over him. I almost repented of having sought his acquaintance.

- Isabella married name Isabella Bishop Bird
  Of Rocky Mountain  Jim, her guide on her travels on horseback through the Rockies.  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne!

- Robert Burns

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stagesfirst an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

- Anton Chekhov
  Uncle Vanya, act 2.

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, Nov. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

-Jonathan Swift
Journal to Stella,17 May.

[There is] an undercurrent of emotion bred of the deep acquaintance that can take a landscape and its inhabitantsto be a vocabulary, a set of wordlesssymbols effortlessly shared.

-John Hoyer Updike
  On the artist Edward Hopper. In theWashington Post, 25 Jun.