Famous quotes containing the word acquaintance:
“An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften the manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination, and a kind of polish to the mind in severer studies.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
“The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)