
“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
“Two is company; three is fifty bucks.”
Reported in The Quotable Quote Book (1990), p. 258
“In married life, three is company, and two is none.”
Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
1860s, Life and Letters in New England (1867)
Context: There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
“I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26
“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
Referring to London.
Memoirs (1796)