“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
“Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.”
"Divided", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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British writer 1820–1897Related quotes
“I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.”
At the National Portrait Gallery unveiling of his portrait (19 December 2008), quoted in David Byers, " President Bush attends his own hanging http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article1998914.ece", The Times (December 19, 2008); Christine Lagorio, " A Public Hanging (Of Sorts) For The Bush Family http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-public-hanging-of-sorts-for-the-bush-family/", CBS News (December 19, 2008).
2000s, 2008
“JU: Are you thin still?
M: Um, in a crowd, yes. In a crowd of very heavy people.”
From "LA Confidential", interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Mojo (April 2001)
In interviews etc., About himself and his work
“Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
Responding to the question "Do you think Mrs Parker Bowles was a factor in the breakdown of your marriage?" in an interview with Martin Bashir http://www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/diana/panorama.html on BBC Panorama (20 November 1995)
“There are idiots in every crowd.”
Source: Deadly Night