Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
Acquaintance
Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil’s Dictionary
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Acquaintance
Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil’s Dictionary
An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Acquaintance
Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil’s Dictionary
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Acquaintance
Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London.
Acquaintance
Forster, Edward M.
1879-1970 British Novelist Essayist
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Acquaintance
Smith, Logan Pearsall
1865-1946 Anglo-American Essayist Aphorist
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Acquaintance
Smith, Logan Pearsall
1865-1946 Anglo-American Essayist Aphorist