“62. A Crowd is not Company.”

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

“But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

“I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.”

Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

“Suddenly, I felt so helpless. If I hated the crowds but also my own company, where did that leave me?”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

“On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

“Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.”

Anthony Trollope book Rachel Ray

“I told myself that I could soon start to relish the state of being alone […], only to find as usual that I was stuck with myself.[…] Two's company, which is bad enough in all conscience, but one's a crowd.”

Kingsley Amis The Green Man

“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician