(1018 quotes found)
“I know the dark delight of being strange,/ The penalty of difference in the crowd,/ The loneliness of wisdom among fools . . .”
Claude McKay
“This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.”
Walter Lippmann
“Every crowd has a silver lining.”
P.T. Barnum
“Where'er you walk, cool glades shall fan the glade / Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: / Where'er you tread, the blusing flow'rs shall rise, / And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.”
Alexander Pope
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with "I've got to get another play”
Neil Simon
“We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself”
Seneca
“Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?”
John Keats
“The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.”
Countee Cullen
“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.”
Epictetus
“The crowd makes the ballgame.”
Ty Cobb
