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
  Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

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)
Zuleika Dobson, ch.9.

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
  Le Coq et l'Arlequin.

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
  On the first performance of his play La Dame aux came¤  lias, 20 Mar, the first recorded use of the phrase. Quoted in  Joanna Richardson The Courtesans (1967), p.227.

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)
  The Waste Land, pt.1,'The Burial of the Dead'.

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
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.73^6. Thomas Hardy popularized the phrase as the title of his novel Far From the Madding Crowd (1874).

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

-Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
c.1779^1783  Aphorisms, Notebook G (translated by R  J Hollingdale,1990).

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

-Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)
  archy and mehitabel,'archy confesses'.

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

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Lustra,'In a Station of the Metro'.

   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
  'Pense¤  es d'un Biologiste', collected inTheSubstance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

   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
  'Epipsychidion', l.149^53.

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

-Swift,Jonathan
Journal to Stella, 9 Feb.

  The crowd laughswithyoualwaysbut it will cry withyou for onlya day.

-Vidor, King Wallis
  The Crowd (withJohnVA Weaver and Harry Behn).

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

-Wallach, Eli
  Observing the crowds that were gathering at the box office to see the highly successful Broadway show Luv. Attributed.

'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
'The Brothers'.

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
  'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza1 (published1807).