“Everyone said he was a fool.
Everyone said she was a clever woman.
They used the word ensnare.”

Variant: the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people...
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

In Legacy of Two Rich Voices - Upholding tradition without being traditionalists http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100425/jsp/opinion/story_12359659.jsp

Three and—an Extra.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

At a committee hearing. Quoted multiple times by Harry Reid, e.g. Congressional Record Vol. 147, No. 83 https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2001/6/14/senate-section/article/S6239-7

Quoted in Bob Fenster, Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros (2005), p. 37
Variant: I told my psychiatrist everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous; everyone hasn't met me yet.

Fiction, The Eve of St. Venus (1964)

Source: City of Bones

Salon interview (1996)
Context: When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language. Most people in India are multilingual, and if you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.

Berkeley’s External World (1947)
Context: Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial, that nothing existed save ideas — ideas and their authors. His contemporaries thought him very ingenious and a little mad.