crowd

   A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no manwould be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

—Rostand,Jean

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but atinkling cymbal, wherethere isno love. See Bible121:9.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

  The crowd laughswithyoualwaysbut it will cry withyou for onlya day.

—Vidor, King Wallis

The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women† It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

—Dumas, Alexandre, fils

S'il faut choisir un crucifie¤  , la foule sauve toujours Barabbas. If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

—Cocteau,Jean

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone's beard.

—Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

—Pound, Ezra Loomis

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

—Gray,Thomas

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind- legs.But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)

I wandered lonelyas a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

—Wordsworth,William

coarse jocosity catches the crowd shakespeare and i are often low browed

—Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)

   I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

'Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly On a pale and anxious crowd, Through the court, and round the judges thronging thickly, With prayers they dare not speak aloudö Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the barö You can see them through the gloomö In the pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are Awaiting their death-doom.

—Wilde,Jane Francesca ne¤  e Elgee

  There's something about a crowd like that that brings a lump to my wallet.

—Wallach, Eli

Will she pass in a crowd? Will she make a figure in a country church?

—Swift,Jonathan