In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo